🔍 China is setting up a committee for the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCI), hoping to become a world leader in brain chip technology. The committee will develop national standards to compete with Western technology companies such as Elon Musk's Neuralink.

• A BCI is any device that translates brain signals into a language that a computer can interpret.

• BCIs recently gained attention when Musk founded Neuralink in 2016 and promised to bring the technology to the general public.

• China wants to use BCI not only to become a global leader, but also to improve cognitive abilities.

While in the West, Neuralink postponed surgery to implant the device in the brain of a second patient due to medical concerns.