Giacomo Valle
@giacomovalle.bsky.social
Neural engineer passionate for neuroscience, innovations and technology | Lab: @BionicsNeural
🎉I’m grateful that my project #BionicDexterity has been awarded a 2.5M € ERC Starting Grant! 🧠🦾 Over 5 years, we’ll investigate at #Chalmers how to create a multimodal #iBCI capable of restoring dexterity after paralysis @erc.europa.eu
European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 2mo ago📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
We got the cover!! 🦾👁️🧠⚡️ @corticalbionics.bsky.social @natrevbioeng.nature.com #NeuralBionicsLab
Nature Reviews Bioengineering@natrevbioeng.nature.com · 3mo agoOur August issue is live! Human disease models by design, restoring vision and touch, pregnancy-associated organs-on-chips, diagnosis of sepsis, antibody design by machine learning, cell sheet engineering, and more: www.nature.com/natrevbioeng...
From shortlist to finalist: our work is now among the top ten in in Life Sciences for the #FallingWalls Global Call for #ScienceBreakthroughs 2026. More info: falling-walls.com/breakthrough... @FallingWalls @chalmersuniv @BionicsNeural
Breaking the Wall of Lost Touch and Movement
Giacomo Valle: Breaking the Wall of Lost Touch and Movement
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The role of neuromorphic principles in the future of biomedicine and healthcare doi.org/10.1088/1741... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
The role of neuromorphic principles in the future of biomedicine and healthcare
The role of neuromorphic principles in the future of biomedicine and healthcare , Hwang, Grace M, Falcone, Jessica D, Monaco, Joseph D, Pinard, Courtney R, Mollick, Jessica A, Miller, Roger L, Gage, S...
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Intracortical microstimulation electrodes are safe and produce consistent sensations for as long as a decade in patients with spinal cord injury, supporting their utility in #BrainComputer interface interventions. Learn more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/4fmHddQ
Long-term safety and efficacy of intracortical microstimulation in humans
Intracortical microstimulation in humans is safe and efficacious for up to 10 years.
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Paper is out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧠 Assisting paralyzed people to #move & #feel their hands again 🦾⚡Wearable neurorobotic system combines neurostimulation and exoskeletons to support both touch and movement in people with neurological impairments
Merging neural stimulation and exoskeletons to enhance sensorimotor hand functions after brain or spinal cord injury
SensoExo restores hand sensation and everyday object grasping in neurological patients combining robotics and neurostimulation.
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After more than 5 decades of parallel development, #corticalstimulation for artificial #vision & artificial #touch is beginning to converge rdcu.be/flRzh Our new @natrevbioeng.nature.com review brings together shared principles and modality-specific strategies across both fields
Restoring vision and touch with cortical microstimulation
Nature Reviews Bioengineering - Cortical sensory prostheses aim to restore vision and touch by stimulating primary visual and somatosensory cortices. This Review examines shared challenges and...
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NEW PREPRINT OUT! Happy to share that our #preprint on how the human #brain encodes #touch: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We investigate how touch is encoded in the human #somatosensory and #motor cortices recorded via #microelectrode arrays across different tactile conditions
Excellent opportunity for Professorship in #Health Engineering here at Chalmers University of Technology! Join us! 🦾 🧠 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I003/304...
Distinguished Professor in Health Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology invites applications for a permanent position as Distinguished Professor in Health
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Paralyzed artist paints again: how one brain implant drives two pathways to recovery www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfr... #NeuroXess #BCI #NeuroTech
Paralyzed Artist Paints Again: How One Brain Implant Drives Two Pathways to Recovery
YouTube video by NeuroXess脑虎科技
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Join us at the the Neural Bionics Lab to work on neural #prosthetics and restore sensorimotor function using #neurotechnology! ⚡ 🧠 🦾 PhD position: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...
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🦿 Using novel implantable #neurotechnology and #AI, researchers led by @giacomovalle.bsky.social from 🇸🇪 Chalmers University of Technology found a new way to make future leg #prostheses feel and act more natural.
Direct nervous system link to make leg prostheses feel more natural
A research team led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has, for the first time, successfully decoded leg movements directly from the remaining nerves in people with above-k...
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Just dropped an episode on somatosensory #neuroprosthetics 🦾🧠⚡️ Give it a listen! Thanks Eddie! @NeuralBionicsLab #bionics #BCI @chalmers youtu.be/fkSQDXyX9f4?...
Beyond Neuralink: How This Scientist Is Teaching Amputees to FEEL With Bionic Hands | BCI Revolution
YouTube video by Ones Changing The World - 1CW
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A new neurotechnology decodes leg movement signals directly from nerves in above-knee amputees, enabling more natural control and sensory feedback for future prosthetic legs. doi.org/hbs568
Direct nervous system link promises more natural leg prostheses
A research team led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has, for the first time, successfully decoded leg movements directly from the remaining nerves in people with above-knee amputations.
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Giacomo Valle@giacomovalle.bsky.social · last yr.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...
Direct nervous system link promises more natural leg prostheses | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Direct nervous system link promises more natural leg prostheses
A research team led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has, for the first time, successfully decoded leg movements directly from the remaining nerves in people with above-k...
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The brain–computer interface is the first in the world to be available for wider use outside of clinical trials go.nature.com/472hzbd
China approves brain chip to treat paralysis — a world first
Chip allows people with paralysis to control a soft robotic hand.
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Truly pioneering and disruptive discoveries in the somatosensory system. Very well deserved! 🧠
The Brain Prize@brainprize.org · 8mo agoWarm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain. Karolinska Institutet HHMI #Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026
Thanks to @nature.com for reporting this interesting news on innovative brain interfacing opportunities
Nature@nature.com · 9mo agoBrain implants are beginning to help people with severe disabilities to speak and even sing in near-real time go.nature.com/49RH292
Brain implants are beginning to help people with severe disabilities to speak and even sing in near-real time go.nature.com/49RH292
OpenAI’s brain implant would use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up?
Spin-out Merge Labs aims to rival Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink. But researchers say the technology is still at an early stage.
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A truly inspiring story by our BCI participant and pioneer #ScottImbrie on TEDx @Northwestern University youtu.be/6qjLR-m1zn0?... @corticalbionics.bsky.social @NeuralBionicsLab @bcipioneers #Tedx #Bionics #BCI
Why I volunteered for brain-computer interface research | Scott Imbrie | TEDxNorthwesternU
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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/...
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
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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!
Our #BCI work was featured in #Tagesthemen, Germany’s most important newscast. Check it out 👇🏻 www.tagesschau.de/tagesthemen/...
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-...
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.
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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...
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...
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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
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...
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