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The clue sits in an EU gatekeeper filing; reporters found the deal four months later. The document, filed May 8, covers partial assets and selected staff in the future tense, so the filing date is not a closing date. Sonera's preprint says its sensor reads speech muscle activity. Companies under the BCI label differ in technical route.
09-09Twenty-five trials and 1,145 stroke patients are compared head to head, a first for robot versus BCI training. Robot-assisted training has stronger evidence; only one BCI study yielded data, so its effect remains unmeasured. It marks the evidence boundary.
09-12P300 spellers flash character by character, slow and tiring; this review maps the bottleneck. An LLM that completes user intent cuts keystrokes by over 62% and nearly doubles communication speed. Signal noise, fatigue and neural-data ethics stay open.