Implant technology coverage from the CyborgsLife market watch.https://cyborgslife.com/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/autus-size-adjustable-valve-fda-approval-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/autus-size-adjustable-valve-fda-approval-2026/The FDA approved the Autus Size-Adjustable Valve on 1 October 2026, a polymer pulmonary valve implanted at 13 mm and widened to 22 mm by balloon catheter.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/newronika-adbs-advent-first-implant-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/newronika-adbs-advent-first-implant-2026/ADVENT will compare adaptive and conventional deep brain stimulation in 104 people with Parkinson disease, at up to 18 sites in the US and EU.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsbcihttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/medel-tici-unico-ce-launch-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/medel-tici-unico-ce-launch-2026/Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amr6YHaqLKs — TICI UNICO puts every component, the microphone included, under the skin. It carries a CE mark and went on sale in Europe on 29 September 2026.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTsensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/georgia-tech-swans-body-network-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/georgia-tech-swans-body-network-2026/SWANS uses the body's ionic conductivity to link injectable implants under 3 mm with wearables. In rats, a paw sensor triggered stimulation of a hind-leg muscle.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantswearableshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/cochlear-totally-implantable-pivotal-enrollment-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/cochlear-totally-implantable-pivotal-enrollment-2026/Cochlear said on 28 September 2026 that its ELEVATE and ENTERPRISE pivotal studies of a cochlear implant with no external processor have enrolled all 92 adults.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTsensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/dtu-maxialtrode-multifunction-implant-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/dtu-maxialtrode-multifunction-implant-2026/A DTU-led team reported in Advanced Science in September 2026 a flexible brain probe under half a millimetre wide that records neurons, delivers drugs and stimulates with light.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsbcihttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/mit-ingestible-paper-battery-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/mit-ingestible-paper-battery-2026/A fully bioresorbable magnesium battery delivered 1.84 V for about three days in pigs, powering an RFID tag and a gastric stimulator before dissolving.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/aarhus-nanoparticle-retina-light-response-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/aarhus-nanoparticle-retina-light-response-2026/Aarhus University reports hollow carbon nitride particles that turn light into signals for surviving retinal neurons, tested in blind mice and pig retina.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTsensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/neuralink-voice-trial-speech-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/neuralink-voice-trial-speech-2026/Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j806JHhCRo — A VOICE trial participant with ALS produced audible speech by thinking the words, in a synthetic reconstruction of his own voice.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantsaihttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/medel-pediatric-candidacy-expansion-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/medel-pediatric-candidacy-expansion-2026/A 237-child multicentre study reports outcomes supporting implantation from seven months and in children who still have residual hearing.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/shirley-ryan-eopra-first-us-implant-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/shirley-ryan-eopra-first-us-implant-2026/A Chicago man received the e-OPRA implant on 15 July 2026, combining a titanium anchor in the bone with implanted muscle electrodes and nerve cuffs that return a sense of touch.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbionicsimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/phosphoenix-visual-neuroprosthetic-financing-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/phosphoenix-visual-neuroprosthetic-financing-2026/The Amsterdam company will use the round to prepare a first-in-human study of a 1,000-electrode implant that stimulates the brain visual relay directly.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTsensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/paradromics-connexus-realtime-speech-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/paradromics-connexus-realtime-speech-2026/The Michigan woman implanted with Connexus in June answered open-ended questions and called her grandchildren, moving the Connect-One study past scripted copy tasks.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/ntu-drug-eluting-cochlear-electrode-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/ntu-drug-eluting-cochlear-electrode-2026/National Taiwan University reported a porous cochlear implant electrode that elutes dexamethasone, lowering inflammation and preserving hearing thresholds in preclinical tests.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTsensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/wakeforest-hurley-scs-diabetic-neuropathy-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/wakeforest-hurley-scs-diabetic-neuropathy-2026/In a 91-patient trial across 13 US centres, 79.4 per cent on stimulation reached at least half pain relief against 4 per cent on medication, and nerve-fibre density rose 56 per cent.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantssenseshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/genlight-medical-cd-rounds-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/genlight-medical-cd-rounds-2026/The Hangzhou company disclosed several hundred million yuan across two rounds on 8 September 2026, for an implantable epilepsy stimulator and a spinal-cord interface.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsbionicshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/cranius-plate-fda-510k-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/cranius-plate-fda-510k-2026/The CraniUS Plate cleared 510(k) review on 29 July 2026 as a patient-specific cranioplasty implant, and the company designates it NeuroPASS 1, the base of a brain-access platform.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/sernova-seraxis-betanova-merger-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/sernova-seraxis-betanova-merger-2026/BetaNova Biotherapeutics pairs Sernova's implantable Cell Pouch with Seraxis' stem-cell-derived islets, with first patient dosing targeted for early 2027.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsbiotechhttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/enovis-ecential-acquisition-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/enovis-ecential-acquisition-2026/A binding offer signed on 1 September 2026 would put eCential Robotics, which fuses imaging, navigation and a robotic arm for bone surgery, inside Enovis by year end.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTroboticsimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/egenesis-egen2784-expanded-access-cohort-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/egenesis-egen2784-expanded-access-cohort-2026/eGenesis reported on 3 September 2026 that two of five recipients of its gene-edited pig kidney went on to human transplants, and three passed eight months without dialysis.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiotechimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/zju-second-hospital-spinal-neural-interface-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/zju-second-hospital-spinal-neural-interface-2026/A 12-year-old Russian patient stood one month after receiving a closed-loop spinal neural interface in Hangzhou, and stepped voluntarily at three months.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/medtronic-cornerstone-robotics-investment-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/medtronic-cornerstone-robotics-investment-2026/The company took a roughly $700 million stake in Cornerstone Robotics and won rights to distribute its Sentire system outside the United States.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsroboticshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/onward-medical-arc-im-eiger-first-implant-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/onward-medical-arc-im-eiger-first-implant-2026/The ARC-IM neurostimulator and lumbar lead went into the first of up to 12 participants at CHUV in Lausanne, in a study of standing and walking after spinal cord injury.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTbionicsimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/imec-transdural-body-coupled-bci-telemetry-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/imec-transdural-body-coupled-bci-telemetry-2026/An imec-led team reports a body-coupled telemetry architecture moving intracortical neural data at up to 500 Mbps on 2.4 mW, validated in cultures and a cadaver, not in patients.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/boston-scientific-crm-cyberattack-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/boston-scientific-crm-cyberattack-2026/A 25 August intrusion left newly implanted cardiac devices unable to activate remote monitoring, and halted manufacturing and shipping of pacemakers and defibrillators.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/rush-joint-implant-brain-particles-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/rush-joint-implant-brain-particles-2026/A Rush University study of 701 donated brains found implant-derived cobalt and titanium in brain tissue, with cobalt tracking higher Alzheimer's pathology but no cognitive decline.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsbiotechhttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/paradromics-connect-one-personal-devices-fda-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/paradromics-connect-one-personal-devices-fda-2026/Connect-One participants can now connect laptops, tablets and phones through the Convey system without a separate FDA sign-off for each new device.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/spineart-ecential-perla-tl-robotic-clearance-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/spineart-ecential-perla-tl-robotic-clearance-2026/A 510(k) on 26 August 2026 moves the PERLA TL system from navigation-only to robotic-assisted pedicle screw workflows on eCential Robotics Op.n.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsroboticshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/abbott-libre-duo-glucose-ketone-de-novo-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/abbott-libre-duo-glucose-ketone-de-novo-2026/Abbott's Libre Duo 10 Day cleared De Novo review on 25 August 2026, measuring glucose and ketones every minute in people aged 2 and over.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTwearablesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/kaist-yonsei-iot-neural-implant-remote-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/kaist-yonsei-iot-neural-implant-remote-2026/KAIST and Yonsei built a sugar-cube-sized implant that delivers drugs and light on command, and ran it across 10,000 km for four weeks.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsbcihttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/shanxi-first-hospital-invasive-bci-implant-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/shanxi-first-hospital-invasive-bci-implant-2026/A man paralysed for three years received a 10-micrometre flexible cortical electrode on 19 August and now drives a computer and a pneumatic glove with it.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/wsu-eskin-prosthetics-sensing-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/wsu-eskin-prosthetics-sensing-2026/Washington State University reports modular e-skin with ten times finer resolution than commercial glove sensors, fitted to each limb by 3D printing.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbionicsimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/ability-neurotech-first-in-human-ecog-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/ability-neurotech-first-in-human-ecog-2026/A first-in-human intraoperative procedure at TU Munich in July 2026 tested an ECoG implant that sends data out by infrared laser instead of radio.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/paradromics-connexus-first-human-implant-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/paradromics-connexus-first-human-implant-2026/A Michigan woman with motor neuron disease received the wireless high-density implant in June 2026, opening the FDA-approved Connect-One feasibility study.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/uw-madison-heartbeat-powered-pacemaker-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/uw-madison-heartbeat-powered-pacemaker-2026/A triboelectric nanogenerator fitted inside a Medtronic Micra shell powered cardiac stimulation in a pig for a month, with no battery.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/mhh-rwth-tpms-artificial-lung-membrane-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/mhh-rwth-tpms-artificial-lung-membrane-2026/Hannover Medical School and RWTH Aachen printed a silicone gas-exchange membrane on a minimal-surface geometry instead of hollow fibres, reported in Advanced Materials on 18 August 2026.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsbiotechhttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/tongji-hospital-central-china-invasive-bci-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/tongji-hospital-central-china-invasive-bci-2026/Tongji Hospital placed eight ultra-flexible electrodes in the motor cortex of a woman paralysed for two years, using a device carrying NMPA innovative-device designation.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/weiling-medical-implantable-bci-financing-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/weiling-medical-implantable-bci-financing-2026/Junzhong Capital led the round, with a STAR Market-listed manufacturer as core industrial investor, to fund clinical verification and device registration.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/science-corp-prima-ce-mark-europe-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/science-corp-prima-ce-mark-europe-2026/A subretinal photovoltaic chip received a CE mark covering 30 countries after a 38-patient trial reported a mean gain of 25.5 letters.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTsensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/houston-methodist-cambridge-circumferential-spinal-implant-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/houston-methodist-cambridge-circumferential-spinal-implant-2026/A flexible array wrapped around the spinal cord of freely moving rats decoded intended movement, sensory type and autonomic traffic in a single device.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantsbionicsbcihttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/rice-il10-halo-encapsulated-islets-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/rice-il10-halo-encapsulated-islets-2026/Rice bioengineers co-encapsulated immune-calming cells with beta cells, holding glucose control in diabetic mice about five times longer than unprotected implants.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiotechimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/china-first-bci-surgery-insurance-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/china-first-bci-surgery-insurance-2026/A state-linked insurer wrote what is reported as China's first commercial policy covering invasive brain-computer interface implant surgery, at a Zhejiang University hospital in Hangzhou.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbcipolicyimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/utsw-ucla-brain-stimulation-gene-programs-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/utsw-ucla-brain-stimulation-gene-programs-2026/UT Southwestern and UCLA report in Nature that brief electrical stimulation of living human brain tissue strengthened neuronal assemblies and changed gene programs in neurons and glia.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantscognitionhttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/bluewind-revi-extend-fda-clearance-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/bluewind-revi-extend-fda-clearance-2026/BlueWind Medical's Revi Extend, a tibial nerve implant for urgency urinary incontinence, cleared the FDA on 5 August 2026 with an intended service life of fifteen years.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/envoy-medical-acclaim-pma-module-one-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/envoy-medical-acclaim-pma-module-one-2026/Envoy Medical submitted module one of four to the FDA for the Acclaim, and reported 53.2% word recognition at 12 months in its first ten pivotal-trial participants.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/nyu-langone-vagus-cochlear-adaptation-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/nyu-langone-vagus-cochlear-adaptation-2026/NYU Langone has implanted four people with a cochlear implant that repurposes one electrode to stimulate the vagus nerve and speed the brain's adaptation to sound.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/active-technology-shanghai-bci-angel-round-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/active-technology-shanghai-bci-angel-round-2026/Active Technology, founded in February 2026, closed a RMB330 million angel round for invasive brain-computer interfaces — a record for the stage in China.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbciimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/zhejiang-people-hospital-320-retinal-visual-bci-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/zhejiang-people-hospital-320-retinal-visual-bci-2026/Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital implanted a 320-contact retinal visual BCI in a woman blind from retinitis pigmentosa; within two days she could tell letters apart.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbcisensesimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/ucsb-visual-cortex-stimulation-deep-learning-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/ucsb-visual-cortex-stimulation-deep-learning-2026/A neural network designed the stimulation patterns for a 96-channel implant in a blind man's visual cortex, reproducing target brain activity with less current.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbcisensesbionicsimplantshttps://cyborgslife.com/pulses/pusan-stretchable-oect-adaptive-transistor-2026/https://cyborgslife.com/pulses/pusan-stretchable-oect-adaptive-transistor-2026/A Pusan National University team built one soft device that runs digital logic at high salt concentration and behaves like a synapse at low, and shows its state by changing colour.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTimplantswearables