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China is racing to set the standards for pioneering brain-machine interface research

  • New committee of experts to be tasked with guiding Chinese research in the emerging field in a sign the country is stepping up focus on future tech

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As China attempts to close a technology gap with the United States, a new committee will soon develop standards to guide Chinese researchers in the emerging field of brain-computer interfaces. Photo: Shutterstock
Vanessa Caiin ShanghaiandZhang Tongin Beijing
China will set up a committee to develop standards for the use of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, as Beijing increases its focus on future technologies amid growing competition for tech supremacy with the West.

Under a plan issued on Monday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the public will have until July 30 to submit suggestions for setting up the committee for “the needs of industrial development and industry management”.

The committee will be responsible for devising standards on tasks such as brain information acquisition, preprocessing, encoding and decoding, data communication, and data visualisation.

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It will also draft and revise technology application standards in fields such as healthcare, education and consumer electronics, as well as ethical standards for clinical applications.

Committee members will be drawn from industrial and technical firms, research institutes and universities, and relevant government departments, according to the ministry.

BCI technology is an emerging field in which machines and devices are controlled with neural signals. The technology could be used in fields such as medicine, autonomous driving and virtual reality.

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