Giacomo Valle
@giacomovalle.bsky.social
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Neural engineer passionate for neuroscience, innovations and technology | Lab: @BionicsNeural
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Giacomo Valle
Jacob Lab
1 day ago
The disruptive advances we are seeing in
#neurotechnology
must be accompanied by ethical frameworks, such as the one adopted yesterday by
@unesco.org
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
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Ethics of neurotechnology: UNESCO adopts the first global standard in
Today UNESCO’s Member States took the final step towards adopting the first global normative framework on the ethics of neurotechnology. The Recommendation, which will enter into force on November 12
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/ethics-neurotechnology-unesco-adopts-first-global-standard-cutting-edge-technology
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I had the pleasure of spending some time with the team in Linköping University 🇸🇪 brainstorming on fascinating projects on the sense of
#touch
. Many thanks to Sarah McIntyre & team for the warm welcome and stimulating conversations! Can't wait to collaborate!
11 days ago
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Giacomo Valle
Jacob Lab
14 days ago
Our
#BCI
work was featured in
#Tagesthemen
, Germany’s most important newscast. Check it out 👇🏻
www.tagesschau.de/tagesthemen/...
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La fame di contatto e la scienza della carezza
La pelle come frontiera: tra pandemia, solitudine digitale e biorobotica, Marta Paterlini racconta il tatto come ponte tra tecnologia, etica e desiderio di connessione
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/la-fame-contatto-e-scienza-carezza-AHcAGPAD?refresh_ce
22 days ago
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Giacomo Valle
Jacob Lab
24 days ago
A big push for
#BCI
and
#neurotechnology
in Europe! We implanted our second microelectrode array
#BCI
@tum.de
. Huge thanks to our pioneer and to fantastic colleagues in
#Neurosurgery
and
#Robotics
#Machine
#Intelligence
🧠🦾🧪
#neuroskyence
@neuroengineering.bsky.social
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
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Brain-computer interface for a patient with quadriplegia
A team at the Technical University of Munich’s TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain-computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down.
https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/brain-computer-interface-for-a-patient-with-quadriplegia
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What if a
#bionic
#hand
could not only move with your thoughts—but also feel edges, textures, and motion? Nice conversation with Milena Korostenskaja on restoring touch through bidirectional
#brain-computer-interfaces
:
#neurocareers
#BCIs
#neuroprosthetics
🎧
www.neuroapproaches.org/podcast/epis...
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Podcast | Neurocareers
A successful career in neuroscience or neurotechnologies? Possible! Get the career advice you were looking for! Tune into the international Neurocareers podcast to hear stories of those who have alrea...
https://www.neuroapproaches.org/podcast/episode/4ca43799/complex-tactile-feedback-for-brain-controlled-bionic-hand-with-giacomo-valle-phd
about 1 month ago
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Interested in the current challenges of cortical
#somatosensory
feedback for brain-controlled
#bionic
hands 🧠 🦾? Comment on @NatureReviews Electrical Engineering SharedIt:
rdcu.be/eIk4r
Link:
nature.com/articles/s44...
@springernature.com
@natureportfolio.nature.com
#NeuralBionicsLab
#Chalmers
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Cortical somatosensory feedback for brain-controlled bionic hands
Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering - Somatosensory feedback is an essential feature of neural prostheses that aim to restore natural hand dexterity after neurological injuries. This Comment...
https://rdcu.be/eIk4r
about 1 month ago
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During phantom limb movements, motor signals emerge from the tibial nerve of amputees🦿, revealing joint- and direction-specific neural activity 🧠 A SNN-based decoder could capture these patterns, outperforming conventional methods. Paper by Cecilia Rossi:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
2 months ago
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Giacomo Valle
Nature
3 months ago
A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief
go.nature.com/3Jp9NPG
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The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost
Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation.
https://go.nature.com/3Jp9NPG
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Giacomo Valle
Cortical Bionics Research Group
3 months ago
The most recent CBRG preprint on intracortical microstimulation is now available! Over 24 combined years across 5 participants, we delivered 168 million!!! pulses of stimulation and recorded everything that happened.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Intracortical microstimulation in humans: a decade of safety and efficacy
Background Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of somatosensory cortex can restore a sense of touch to people with spinal cord injury (SCI). In this early-feasibility clinical trial, we evaluate the...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.25332271v1
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Giacomo Valle
Claudia Clopath Lab
3 months ago
We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-00954-x.pdf
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Amazing research! Congrats to Eduardo Fernandez and his team! 🧠 ⚡️👁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4tq...
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The hope of artificial vision for those with total sight loss
YouTube video by RAZOR Science Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4tqzYTE7KM
5 months ago
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www.pcforalla.se/article/2801...
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Cyborg på riktigt – framtidens människa är redan verklighet
Framtiden är närmare än du tror – redan idag finns tekniken som gör det möjligt att bli en riktig cyborg.
https://www.pcforalla.se/article/2801825/cyborg-pa-riktigt.html
5 months ago
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What an incredible trip across Canada! 🇨🇦🦾 My journey started in Montreal, where I reconnected with my dear friend and brilliant researcher
@marcobon.bsky.social
and his fascinating work on cortical stimulation for movement restoration — truly cutting-edge research 🧠⚡
5 months ago
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Thanks
@jacob-lab.bsky.social
for sharing your fantastic science in the field of
#iBCI
🧠 Strengthening the EU network for human brain interfacing 🦾 Technical University of Munich
@marcelloienca.bsky.social
Markus Ploner Kristen Kozielski Melissa Zavaglia Gordon Cheng BCI Pioneers Coalition
5 months ago
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Giacomo Valle
Jacob Lab
6 months ago
If you’re in the Munich area tomorrow, join us for the next
#Neurotechnology
#Lecture
@tum.de
by
@giacomovalle.bsky.social
on „Brain-controlled bionic limbs“ 🧠🦾
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Inspiring session and Q/A with the iBCI pioneer Scott Imbrie from the University of Chicago and our students at Chalmers University of Technology Many thanks to all the BCI pioneers for their amazing work!!! 🦾
@corticalbionics.bsky.social
#bcipioneers
#iBCI-CC
#bionics
#beinspiring
6 months ago
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Inspiring visit to Göttingen last week! Attended the
#NWG2025
– Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society. Inspiring talks like the one by prof. Richard Andersen from
#Caltech
and many interesting neuroscientific discussions
7 months ago
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Giacomo Valle
Science Magazine
8 months ago
Cochlear implants give deaf kids unprecedented access to sound. But insisting they avoid using sign language may be risky. Learn more:
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www.corriere.it/salute/neuro...
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https://www.corriere.it/salute/neuroscienze/25_marzo_24/verso-la-creazione-di-un-senso-del-tatto-artificialee-78280bb5-0b1a-4218-85ef-bbdda5fefxlk.shtml
8 months ago
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New paper with the Neuromuscular Lab @University of Michigan with Jacky Tian Paul Cederna Stephen Kemp 🦾
www.linkedin.com/posts/jacky-...
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Jacky Tian on LinkedIn: #biomimetic #neuroprosthetic #neuroprosthetics #bionics #neural_engineering
Excited to share our latest publication in Biomimetics "The Next Frontier in Neuroprosthetics: Integration of Biomimetic Somatosensory Feedback"! In this…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jacky-tian-a74b26144_biomimetic-neuroprosthetic-neuroprosthetics-activity-7303178229480136706-LV41?utm_source=share
8 months ago
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@NIH Research Matters featuring our work on
#bionic
touch in
#iBCI
@corticalbionics.bsky.social
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Creating an artificial sense of touch
Tiny electrodes placed precisely in the brain let people with spinal cord injuries feel sensations of shape, motion, and the orientation of objects on the skin.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/creating-artificial-sense-touch
8 months ago
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Thanks Amos Matsiko, editor in
#ScienceRobotics
for highlighting our work
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@corticalbionics.bsky.social
#bionics
#neuroprosthetics
Charles Greenspon Sliman Bensmaia
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Restoration of tactile sensation in bionic hands
Somatosensory cortex stimulation enabled restoration of tactile feedback, permitting bionic hand users to discern objects.
https://science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adw3630
9 months ago
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Interview on our
#iBCI
study with Ross Kaminsky at The Ross Kaminsky Show! iHeart Media iHeartRadio Chalmers University of technology
@corticalbionics.bsky.social
#bionics
#neuroprosthetics
koacolorado.iheart.com/featured/ros...
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Giacomo Valle of the Neural Bionics Lab on Brain-Computer Interface | KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM | Ross Kaminsky
Get the Latest Info!
https://koacolorado.iheart.com/featured/ross-kaminsky/content/2025-01-24-giacomo-valle-of-the-neural-bionics-lab-on-brain-computer-interface/
9 months ago
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Giacomo Valle
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
9 months ago
Valle et al. developed intracortical microstimulation approaches able to deliver enriched somatosensory percepts similar to those evoked in natural touch in individuals with spinal cord injury.
https://buff.ly/4gfstfn
@giacomovalle.bsky.social
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Our work featured in:
@thetimes.com
by Tom Whipple
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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The paralysed people moving robotic arms with their minds
A Swedish study aims to restore their ability to feel and handle objects — and gain independence
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/the-paralysed-people-moving-robotic-arms-with-their-minds-56mgpk8p0
10 months ago
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Giacomo Valle
Healthcare in Europe
10 months ago
Promising technology for patients with #spinal cord injuries: A new study led by
@giacomovalle.bsky.social
from
@corticalbionics.bsky.social
#spinal
paves the way for complex touch sensation through
#brain
stimulation, using an extracorporeal
#bionic
limb attached to a chair or
#wheelchair
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Artificial touch for brain-controlled bionic hand
For the first time ever, a complex sense of touch for individuals living with spinal cord injuries is a step closer to reality.
http://dlvr.it/THQ4Rz
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New in
@science.org
our study "Tactile edges and motion via patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex". 🦾 🧠 ⚡
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Interesting related perspective by prof. Paul Marasco
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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10 months ago
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Our paper examining the
#ethical
and
#technical
requirements in clinical trials for implantable neural prostheses is out in
#LancetDigitalHealth
today.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Neural Bionics Lab Chalmers University of Technology
@corticalbionics.bsky.social
#neuroprosthetics
10 months ago
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Check out our new paper 'Evoking stable and precise tactile sensations via multi-electrode intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex' on @NatureBiomedicalEngineering 🦾 🧠 ⚡ LINK:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
11 months ago
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