An old-school request for some show-and-tell — which led to a 14-year-old boy controlling a motorized Lego car with his mind — has led to a commitment of at least $285,000 from a prominent national angel investor group in Neurable Inc., a University of Michigan spinoff that has quickly become the most-talked-about startup on the local tech scene.
In April, Neurable won $50,000 by finishing second at the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition in Houston. The company has created a patent-pending, noninvasive brain-computer interface that, thanks to artificial intelligence software developed by founder, President and CEO Ramses Alcaide at UM's Direct Brain Interface Lab, allows people to control software and objects with their brain activity.
Image: Photo by Tom Henderson Ramses Alcaide controls a Neurable car.
