Jacob Robinson
@jacobrobinson.bsky.social
Professor • Founder • CEO • Girl Dad
Building BCI @ Motif Neurotech
Professing Neuroengineeing @ Rice University
www.motifnuero.tech
www.robinsonlab.com
Building BCI @ Motif Neurotech
Professing Neuroengineeing @ Rice University
www.motifnuero.tech
www.robinsonlab.com
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Jacob Robinson
@jacobrobinson.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Here are some folks on the translational side of neurotech!
Founders, engineers, translational labs, and investors.
Please message me for folks I should add!
go.bsky.app/N2LreWi
Founders, engineers, translational labs, and investors.
Please message me for folks I should add!
go.bsky.app/N2LreWi
Happy Father’s Day to all you fellow Dads out there hatching your master plan…
June 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Happy Father’s Day to all you fellow Dads out there hatching your master plan…
NIH cuts hurt companies like Motif Neurotech. We are fortunate to have resources for clinical trials, but companies relying on NIH are struggling.
Every day new therapies are delayed, people suffer.
🙏 Dan Gilbert for speaking to us & raising awareness
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Every day new therapies are delayed, people suffer.
🙏 Dan Gilbert for speaking to us & raising awareness
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Biotech start-ups struggle as Trump throttles NIH funding
Freezes and reductions in National Institutes of Health funding are reverberating beyond universities and research labs to startups in the biotech industry.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
NIH cuts hurt companies like Motif Neurotech. We are fortunate to have resources for clinical trials, but companies relying on NIH are struggling.
Every day new therapies are delayed, people suffer.
🙏 Dan Gilbert for speaking to us & raising awareness
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Every day new therapies are delayed, people suffer.
🙏 Dan Gilbert for speaking to us & raising awareness
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Most importantly, I got to use the stage to talk about mental health & how tech can improve something so important but rarely talked about. I'm incredibly grateful for that opportunity, the talented organizers, and the other attendees who shared their time, good humor, and sense of wonder. 🙏 (2/2)
March 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Most importantly, I got to use the stage to talk about mental health & how tech can improve something so important but rarely talked about. I'm incredibly grateful for that opportunity, the talented organizers, and the other attendees who shared their time, good humor, and sense of wonder. 🙏 (2/2)
Totally blown away by the experience of presenting at MARS: Fascinating dinners with Jeff Bezos, Ron Howard, wonderful founders, scientists, and folks from Amazon. I even got to fan-boy over my favorite podcasters Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal (who were super kind BTW) (1/2)
March 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Totally blown away by the experience of presenting at MARS: Fascinating dinners with Jeff Bezos, Ron Howard, wonderful founders, scientists, and folks from Amazon. I even got to fan-boy over my favorite podcasters Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal (who were super kind BTW) (1/2)
Congrats to my 5yo daughter who became an official Texan this weekend! 🤠
March 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Congrats to my 5yo daughter who became an official Texan this weekend! 🤠
Enchanted to meet this article from @dr-shlee.bsky.social, @dougweberlab.bsky.social, and colleagues.
It's Swiftly becoming one of my favorites! 🫶 🫶 🫶
bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
It's Swiftly becoming one of my favorites! 🫶 🫶 🫶
bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
March 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Enchanted to meet this article from @dr-shlee.bsky.social, @dougweberlab.bsky.social, and colleagues.
It's Swiftly becoming one of my favorites! 🫶 🫶 🫶
bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
It's Swiftly becoming one of my favorites! 🫶 🫶 🫶
bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Looking forward to sharing big news in 2025! 🤫 🤞
We brought the whole team to Houston this week for our 2025 Strategy Summit. The team synergy is palpable and we're so excited for everything ahead of us this year 🧠 🛫
February 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Looking forward to sharing big news in 2025! 🤫 🤞
Reposted by Jacob Robinson
We brought the whole team to Houston this week for our 2025 Strategy Summit. The team synergy is palpable and we're so excited for everything ahead of us this year 🧠 🛫
January 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We brought the whole team to Houston this week for our 2025 Strategy Summit. The team synergy is palpable and we're so excited for everything ahead of us this year 🧠 🛫
Reposted by Jacob Robinson
We've been selected by @aria-research.bsky.social to develop a network of neural devices designed to monitor and regulate mental and cognitive states without brain surgery. The UK-based program led by @jacquescarolan.bsky.social is contributing £69M to unlock the full potential of #neurotech.
We’re excited to announce the 18 teams we’re funding in Precision Neurotechnologies 🧠 They’ll work to unlock new ways to interface with the brain at the neural circuit level, with unprecedented precision. (1/3)
January 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We've been selected by @aria-research.bsky.social to develop a network of neural devices designed to monitor and regulate mental and cognitive states without brain surgery. The UK-based program led by @jacquescarolan.bsky.social is contributing £69M to unlock the full potential of #neurotech.
Reposted by Jacob Robinson
We're honored to be selected by @aria-research.bsky.social for a multimillion-dollar award through their Precision Neurotechnologies Program. This funding will accelerate the development of our therapeutic Brain-Computer Interface to treat mood, attention, and sleep disorders 🧠🚀
January 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
We're honored to be selected by @aria-research.bsky.social for a multimillion-dollar award through their Precision Neurotechnologies Program. This funding will accelerate the development of our therapeutic Brain-Computer Interface to treat mood, attention, and sleep disorders 🧠🚀
Reposted by Jacob Robinson
Hundreds of Caltech and Caltech/Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab scientists, professors, and students have lost their homes in the LA fires.
The Disaster Relief Fund is organized to help. Please share.
giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...
The Disaster Relief Fund is organized to help. Please share.
giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...
The Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund
giving.caltech.edu
January 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hundreds of Caltech and Caltech/Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab scientists, professors, and students have lost their homes in the LA fires.
The Disaster Relief Fund is organized to help. Please share.
giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...
The Disaster Relief Fund is organized to help. Please share.
giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...
Reposted by Jacob Robinson
Teamed up with some of my favorite scientists to imagine the future of #biohybrid devices that combine engineered tissues with bioelectronics. TLDR (but please R), the future is bright! Out now in Nature Reviews Bioengineering:
rdcu.be/d5z6s
@jrivnay.bsky.social
@jacobrobinson.bsky.social
rdcu.be/d5z6s
@jrivnay.bsky.social
@jacobrobinson.bsky.social
Integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology
Nature Reviews Bioengineering - Biohybrid devices based on engineered cells interfaced with bioelectronics combine the strengths of each field, resulting in constructs with properties that are not...
rdcu.be
January 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Teamed up with some of my favorite scientists to imagine the future of #biohybrid devices that combine engineered tissues with bioelectronics. TLDR (but please R), the future is bright! Out now in Nature Reviews Bioengineering:
rdcu.be/d5z6s
@jrivnay.bsky.social
@jacobrobinson.bsky.social
rdcu.be/d5z6s
@jrivnay.bsky.social
@jacobrobinson.bsky.social
Reposted by Jacob Robinson
Just out in @natrevbioeng.bsky.social, check out our perspective on integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Biohybrid devices based on engineered cells interfaced with bioelectronics combine the strengths of each field, resulting in constructs with properties that are not otherwise achievable. In this Revie...
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Just out in @natrevbioeng.bsky.social, check out our perspective on integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
How you responded to all this is so inspiring. Thanks for sharing the journey! 🙏
January 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
How you responded to all this is so inspiring. Thanks for sharing the journey! 🙏
I wanted to share my rationale for our recent comment in Nature BME proposing an application-based taxonomy for BCI (unrolled from LinkedIn):
Why we should consider labeling BCI based on its intended use.
open.substack.com/pub/brainjac...
Why we should consider labeling BCI based on its intended use.
open.substack.com/pub/brainjac...
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open.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I wanted to share my rationale for our recent comment in Nature BME proposing an application-based taxonomy for BCI (unrolled from LinkedIn):
Why we should consider labeling BCI based on its intended use.
open.substack.com/pub/brainjac...
Why we should consider labeling BCI based on its intended use.
open.substack.com/pub/brainjac...
I would have no concern. In fact, we wrote:
“Communication and movement BCIs should refer to technologies that are primarily intended to transmit information between the brain and a digital or physical device... This category is synonymous with ‘neural prostheses’ “
“Communication and movement BCIs should refer to technologies that are primarily intended to transmit information between the brain and a digital or physical device... This category is synonymous with ‘neural prostheses’ “
December 30, 2024 at 3:50 PM
I would have no concern. In fact, we wrote:
“Communication and movement BCIs should refer to technologies that are primarily intended to transmit information between the brain and a digital or physical device... This category is synonymous with ‘neural prostheses’ “
“Communication and movement BCIs should refer to technologies that are primarily intended to transmit information between the brain and a digital or physical device... This category is synonymous with ‘neural prostheses’ “
Beautiful! How would you rate it on a scale of 1=oven 10=offset? Need some data!
December 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Beautiful! How would you rate it on a scale of 1=oven 10=offset? Need some data!
unpaywalled here! rdcu.be/d4y2u
An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces
Nature Biomedical Engineering - Naming brain–computer interfaces according to their intended application will assist stakeholders in the evaluation of the benefits and risks of...
rdcu.be
December 23, 2024 at 8:08 PM
unpaywalled here! rdcu.be/d4y2u
hopefully this can be accessed without paywall: rdcu.be/d4y2u
An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces
Nature Biomedical Engineering - Naming brain–computer interfaces according to their intended application will assist stakeholders in the evaluation of the benefits and risks of...
rdcu.be
December 23, 2024 at 7:50 PM
hopefully this can be accessed without paywall: rdcu.be/d4y2u
non-paywalled version here: rdcu.be/d4y2u
An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces
Nature Biomedical Engineering - Naming brain–computer interfaces according to their intended application will assist stakeholders in the evaluation of the benefits and risks of...
rdcu.be
December 23, 2024 at 7:49 PM
non-paywalled version here: rdcu.be/d4y2u
Reposted by Jacob Robinson
What do we mean when we say BCI? As neuro technologies mature, it's important for scientists to use cohesive language to talk about them with the public. Here's a nice commentary piece where Jacob Robinson and co. lay out a proposal.
Just in time for the holidays 😂
Just in time for the holidays 😂
What is or isn't a "BCI"?
We argue in Nature BME today that if the tech stimulates or records brain activity AND does computation, it's a BCI.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
But we still need a way to discuss different types of BCI separately... 🧵
#BCI #BrainComputerInterface
We argue in Nature BME today that if the tech stimulates or records brain activity AND does computation, it's a BCI.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
But we still need a way to discuss different types of BCI separately... 🧵
#BCI #BrainComputerInterface
An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces - Nature Biomedical Engineering
Naming brain–computer interfaces according to their intended application will assist stakeholders in the evaluation of the benefits and risks of neurotechnologies.
www.nature.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:56 PM
What do we mean when we say BCI? As neuro technologies mature, it's important for scientists to use cohesive language to talk about them with the public. Here's a nice commentary piece where Jacob Robinson and co. lay out a proposal.
Just in time for the holidays 😂
Just in time for the holidays 😂
Thanks to a great group of co-authors!
@sumnerln.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @neuroamyo.bsky.social @chethanp.bsky.social @andpru.bsky.social @crozell.bsky.social @nishalshah.bsky.social @maryamshanechi.bsky.social @erictrautmann.bsky.social and many others not on BSky 🙏
@sumnerln.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @neuroamyo.bsky.social @chethanp.bsky.social @andpru.bsky.social @crozell.bsky.social @nishalshah.bsky.social @maryamshanechi.bsky.social @erictrautmann.bsky.social and many others not on BSky 🙏
December 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Thanks to a great group of co-authors!
@sumnerln.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @neuroamyo.bsky.social @chethanp.bsky.social @andpru.bsky.social @crozell.bsky.social @nishalshah.bsky.social @maryamshanechi.bsky.social @erictrautmann.bsky.social and many others not on BSky 🙏
@sumnerln.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @neuroamyo.bsky.social @chethanp.bsky.social @andpru.bsky.social @crozell.bsky.social @nishalshah.bsky.social @maryamshanechi.bsky.social @erictrautmann.bsky.social and many others not on BSky 🙏
We argue that classifying BCI based on their applications e.g. "movement BCI" or "therapeutic BCI" would allow regulators, scientists, physicians, and patients to discuss specific BCI classes narrowly.
Just in time for your holiday conversation starter - our gift to you!! 🎁
Just in time for your holiday conversation starter - our gift to you!! 🎁
December 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
We argue that classifying BCI based on their applications e.g. "movement BCI" or "therapeutic BCI" would allow regulators, scientists, physicians, and patients to discuss specific BCI classes narrowly.
Just in time for your holiday conversation starter - our gift to you!! 🎁
Just in time for your holiday conversation starter - our gift to you!! 🎁
What is or isn't a "BCI"?
We argue in Nature BME today that if the tech stimulates or records brain activity AND does computation, it's a BCI.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
But we still need a way to discuss different types of BCI separately... 🧵
#BCI #BrainComputerInterface
We argue in Nature BME today that if the tech stimulates or records brain activity AND does computation, it's a BCI.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
But we still need a way to discuss different types of BCI separately... 🧵
#BCI #BrainComputerInterface
An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces - Nature Biomedical Engineering
Naming brain–computer interfaces according to their intended application will assist stakeholders in the evaluation of the benefits and risks of neurotechnologies.
www.nature.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
What is or isn't a "BCI"?
We argue in Nature BME today that if the tech stimulates or records brain activity AND does computation, it's a BCI.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
But we still need a way to discuss different types of BCI separately... 🧵
#BCI #BrainComputerInterface
We argue in Nature BME today that if the tech stimulates or records brain activity AND does computation, it's a BCI.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
But we still need a way to discuss different types of BCI separately... 🧵
#BCI #BrainComputerInterface
I won’t say I’m disappointed. But that doesn’t mean I’m not. 💔
December 14, 2024 at 10:19 PM
I won’t say I’m disappointed. But that doesn’t mean I’m not. 💔