Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This week we spoke to Nathan Copeland, an individual who has received a Blackrock brain-computer interface implant in both his somatosensory cortex and motor cortex. Nathan is an invasive brain-computer interface user and neurotechnology consultant. In 2004, he was in a car accident that left him with a C5 spinal cord injury and resulting quadriplegia. He later joined the Rehab Neural Engineering Lab at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to test brain-computer interface devices to control a robotic arm, an exoskeleton glove, play video games, and make art. His work over the last 7 years has resulted in major contributions to science. Currently, Nathan is working as a neurotechnology consultant for Blackrock Neurotech and, on his own time, has started making and selling NFTs on OpenSea drawn entirely with his brain-computer interface!
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Nathan’s Twitter: twitter.com/bcicandobetter
Nathan’s SuperRare: superrare.com/artwork-v2/you-are-loved-32211
Nathan’s OpenSea: opensea.io/BCIcanDoBetter
Nathan’s Instagram: instagram.com/bcicandobetter
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This week we spoke to Nathan Copeland, an individual who has received a Blackrock brain-computer interface implant in both his somatosensory cortex and motor cortex. Nathan is an invasive brain-computer interface user and neurotechnology consultant. In 2004, he was in a car accident that left him with a C5 spinal cord injury and resulting quadriplegia. He later joined the Rehab Neural Engineering Lab at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to test brain-computer interface devices to control a robotic arm, an exoskeleton glove, play video games, and make art. His work over the last 7 years has resulted in major contributions to science. Currently, Nathan is working as a neurotechnology consultant for Blackrock Neurotech and, on his own time, has started making and selling NFTs on OpenSea drawn entirely with his brain-computer interface!
Links from this episode:
Nathan’s Twitter: twitter.com/bcicandobetter
Nathan’s SuperRare: superrare.com/artwork-v2/you-are-loved-32211
Nathan’s OpenSea: opensea.io/BCIcanDoBetter
Nathan’s Instagram: instagram.com/bcicandobetter
Support us: bciguys.com/support
Follow us on Social Media!
Twitter: twitter.com/bciguys
Instagram: instagram.com/bciguys/
Website: bciguys.com
YouTube: youtube.com/c/TheBCIGuys
