OUR HISTORY IN A NUTSHELL

g.tec’s history began when…

…Christoph Guger and Günter Edlinger started developing brain-computer interfaces (BCI) over 20 years ago, after presenting the first portable BCI system in 1999 at the BCI Meeting in Rensselaerville, New York. Since then, g.tec’s history has been marked by continuous innovation, with its products being internationally used in clinical environments and research for applications such as brain, heart, and muscle activity analysis, brain assessments of severe brain injuries and disorders of consciousness, motor rehabilitation after stroke, neuromarketing, deep brain stimulation, brain mapping, neuroprosthesis control, communication, painting, and closed-loop invasive and non-invasive BCI experiments.

DEVELOPMENTS AND EVENTS

2025
g.PYPE SDK for Python

Python Software Development Kit (SDK) tailored for creating Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) applications with the Unicorn BCI Core-8

Unicorn BCI Core-8

8-channel EEG and BCI device designed for EEG recordings in humans, dogs, horses, and many more animals

recoveriX Neurorehabiliation Multiple Sclerosis

BCI-based closed-loop stroke rehabilitation system to train upper or lower extremities of patients who suffer from motor impairments due to stroke or Multiple Sclerosis

cortiQ 2.0

Combination of high-gamma mapping with electrical cortical stimulation and CCEPs, SEPs, HFEPs, white matter exploration

mindBEAGLE 2.0

Brain assessment, communication, prediction and training of patients with disorders of consciousness

2024
g.HIamp Fusion with Tobii PRO

Integrated EEG and eye tracking technology for comprehensive consumer behavior and cognitive analysis simultaneously

g.Nautilus Fusion with Tobii PRO

Integrated EEG and eye tracking technology for comprehensive consumer behavior and cognitive analysis simultaneously

g.NAUTILUS with NIRx 

Combine NIRSport2 with g.Nautilus for advanced EEG sampling and expanded channel capability

g.HIAMP with NIRx

Combine NIRSport2 with g.HIamp for advanced EEG sampling and expanded channel capability

g.LADYbird Super-flat EEG Electrodes for TMS Recordings

Advanced TMS-EEG Integration: g.LADYbird Electrodes for Precision Recording

NEW BRANCHES IN COLOMBIA AND AUSTRALIA

as a direct sales point of contact

Unicorn Education Kit Mini

4 complete BCI systems for education and Hackathons

2022
recoveriX Neurorehabiliation – Lower Limb Therapy

First BCI-based closed-loop system for lower limb therapy introduced for patients who suffer from motor impairments due to stroke or Multiple Sclerosis

2021
New Branch in Vancouver and Japan

as a direct sales point of contact

2020
Start of The BCI & Neurotechnology Spring School

This virtual event became the biggest neurotechnology event in the world with more than 80.000 attendees

g.Pangolin Ultra High-Density EEG/EMG/EOG

Ultra-high density EEG system with 1024 channels introduced

Unicorn Education Kit

8 complete BCI systems for education and Hackathons

2019
Unicorn Brain Interface

The Unicorn Brain Interface is a hybrid, wearable EEG headset on the market that allows users to write, draw, control robots and much more just by thinking! It acquires brain waves from 8 hybrid EEG electrodes that can be used wet or dry.

 

Medical Approval for cortiQ and recoveriX

Medical approval for the high-gamma mapping system cortiQ and for the stroke rehabilitation system recoveriX

2018
New Branch in Hong Kong

as a direct sales point of contact

2017
g.Estim FES – Electrical Stimulator for Invasive and Non-Invasive Use

g.tec brought the first functional electrical stimulator (FES) with a real-time application programming interface (API) to the market, cleared as medical products. This was a major step that suddenly allowed researchers and developers to set up closed-loop experiments

BR41N.IO Designers’ Hackathon Series

We created the BR41N.IO Brain-Computer Interface Designers Hackathon Series to promote current and future developments! This series also highlights the unlimited possibilities of BCIs in creative or scientific fields, and brings together engineers, programmers, designers and artists

2014
g.Nautilus Wearable EEG Headset

g.tec introduced the g.Nautilus wireless dry and/or wet EEG recording system using active electrodes. This major achievement is still boosting BCI performance and user experience worldwide by improving the signal to noise ratio and ease of use. With g.Nautilus, users can now get EEG data that is almost artifact free, which is an important step to use as much of the recorded EEG data as possible. This became especially important for recordings with patients where you only get a very small time window, and hence recording the best possible EEG data is crucial

2013
Development of Code-Based VEP

g.tec developed code-based VEPs (visual evoked potentials) that allowed users to control a robotic device with an accuracy of 98% in a continuous control task and play World of Warcraft

Development of cortiQ Rapid Cortical Mapping

g.tec became more active with ECoG (electrocorticography) recordings, which have led to several publications and the development of cortiQ. The high spatial resolution of ECoG recordings has made it possible to decode much finer finger movements than with non-invasive recordings, and to analyze under-explored brain regions like the fusiform face area in real-time using high-gamma activity

2010
g.tec Wins The Microsoft Innovation Award

g.tec medical engineering wins the Microsoft Innovation Award

2008
g.HIamp 256 Channel Biosignal Amplifier

g.tec released a 256 channel amplifier that can be used for non-invasive and invasive BCI experiments and enables high-gamma analysis with a high resolution than any other system

2007
Fist BCI For Home Use

intendiX was the first commercial BCI system for home use. This P300 speller could achieve 100% accuracy after only 5 minutes of training

2000
MathWorks Connection Partnership

MathWorks becomes an important partner for developing g.tec’s data acquisition software for MATLAB for several Brain-Computer Interface applications

1999
Foundation of g.tec medical engineering GmbH

g.tec medical engineering was founded in 1999 in Austria by Christoph Guger and Günter Edlinger, who have been the CEOs ever since

Development of the 1st Brain-Computer Interface

Christoph Guger and Günter Edlinger developed the first commercial Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system while they were in graduate school together, with 100% accuracy using a motor imagery BCI system with Common Spatial Patterns.

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