Future of high-tech may rely more on brain power

When electric car and reusable rocket entrepreneur Elon Musk made a splash recently by announcing that his startup Neuralink had made breakthroughs in a brain-computer interface (BCI) - enabling a monkey to control a computer with its brain - a Chinese startup was already racing to take the lead in commercializing the technology.

BrainCo, founded by Harvard University graduate Han Bicheng, developed a technology that can detect and translate human brain signals into computer commands by using advanced sensors and complex algorithms.

Unlike the invasive brain-computer interface technique used by Musk's Neuralink, which requires implants, BrainCo has come up with a noninvasive technique, picking up brain signals through electrical sensors placed on a person's scalp.