China’s future tech race with US set for a boost with new Fudan brain chip centre


Fudan University’s US$56mil facility in Shanghai comes as China pushes disruptive technology among ‘new quality productive forces’. — SCMP

A leading Chinese university has set up a research centre for brain-computer interface (BCI), a technology that gives humans the ability to control external devices such as computers or robotic limbs with their minds.

The 400mil yuan (RM249.48mil or US$56mil) facility at Fudan University comes as China continues to push the development of disruptive technology amid a race for tech supremacy with the United States, a long-time leader in BCI research.

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