Gestalt (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd. was officially established on Wednesday, marking the launch of a new technological route in China’s brain-computer interface (BCI) sector based on ultrasound rather than traditional electrical signals.

The company was co-founded by Peng Lei, former co-founder and chief executive of BrainTiger Technology, and Tianqiao Chen, founder of Shanda Group.

Gestala will focus on innovation in ultrasound-based BCI technologies, aiming to develop next-generation platforms for whole-brain signal reading, writing and analysis, and to accelerate the practical application of brain-computer interfaces.

Gestalt has established operations in the Chengdu High-Tech Zone’s Tianfu International Bio City and has also joined the Brain Intelligence World BCI industrial cluster in Shanghai.

Chen said that human understanding of the brain remains limited and that ultrasound-based BCI represents a differentiated technological pathway compared with electrical-based interfaces.

“We hope to promote exploration of the brain from multiple technological dimensions. What we want is not only to understand the brain, but to make brain science benefit more patients,” Chen said.