Rigid Infrastucture
Fixed setups make it difficult to adapt to new experimental requirements or integrate emerging technologies.
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Unleash research
potential with Flex-I
Enable sophisticated multisensory, decision-making, and behavioural paradigms with unprecedented flexibility
A behavioral setup designed by researchers for researchers
Have you ever had these problems?
Time-Consuming Setup
Researchers spend valuable time configuring equipment instead of focusing on actual experimentation and analysis.
High Costs
Every protocol change requires expensive custom modifications and extended downtime that drains research budgets.
Our solution
Multisensory by design
Support advanced multisensory, behavioral, and decision-making studies with exceptional adaptability and ease of programming.
True Modularity
Build your setup from interchangeable components that adapt to your experimental protocol
Rapid Iteration
Test new ideas in hours, not weeks. Reconfigure setups as your research evolves
Build the experiment you need today and the one you haven't imagined yet
Come visit usWHY IT'S DIFFERENT
Engineered for precision
Built for Flex-Ibility
A system that evolves with the research
True Modularity & Experimental Freedom
Flex-I's modular architecture allows researchers to build custom configurations tailored to each experiment and to reconfigure them as hypotheses evolve. Components can be reused across projects, enabling fast iteration without costly redesigns.
Accessible to non-engineers, powerful for expert users
Low Entry Barrier, High Power
Designed for quick configuration while remaining powerful for advanced users.
Plug-and-play mechanics, visual tools, and a documented API allow both rapid onboarding and deep customization via your programming language of choice.
Enhances existing setups
Seamless Lab Integration
Flex-I integrates seamlessly with widely used neuroscience tools (e.g., neural probes, imaging systems, optogenetics, and cameras), synchronizing diverse devices into a unified experimental platform without requiring labs to replace their existing equipment.
Research-grade reliability
Precision, Robustness & Reproducibility
Industrial-grade embedded hardware and high-quality mechanical design ensure millisecond timing accuracy, stable long-term operation, and reproducible experiments across sessions/configurations, with numerous ports (digital, analog, bus) for expansions.
A system that evolves with the research
True Modularity & Experimental Freedom
Flex-I's modular architecture allows researchers to build custom configurations tailored to each experiment and to reconfigure them as hypotheses evolve. Components can be reused across projects, enabling fast iteration without costly redesigns.
Accessible to non-engineers, powerful for expert users
Low Entry Barrier, High Power
Designed for quick configuration while remaining powerful for advanced users.
Plug-and-play mechanics, visual tools, and a documented API allow both rapid onboarding and deep customization via your programming language of choice.
Enhances existing setups
Seamless Lab Integration
Flex-I integrates seamlessly with widely used neuroscience tools (e.g., neural probes, imaging systems, optogenetics, and cameras), synchronizing diverse devices into a unified experimental platform without requiring labs to replace their existing equipment.
Research-grade reliability
Precision, Robustness & Reproducibility
Industrial-grade embedded hardware and high-quality mechanical design ensure millisecond timing accuracy, stable long-term operation, and reproducible experiments across sessions/configurations, with numerous ports (digital, analog, bus) for expansions.
RESEARCH APPLICATIONS
Popular experimental paradigms
you can run on Flex-I
Alternative Forced Choice
In an alternative forced choice task, rodents must choose between two or more predefined options to obtain a reward or avoid an aversive outcome. This paradigm is used to measure decision-making, learning, and sensory or cognitive biases.
Sensory Discrimination
In sensory discrimination tasks, mice or rats are trained to distinguish between two stimuli—such as different tones, odors, or textures—to receive a reward. These experiments assess perceptual acuity and the neural basis of sensory processing.
Social Interaction
A social interaction paradigm measures how a rodent explores or engages with another conspecific, typically in a controlled arena. It is used to quantify sociability, social preference, and behaviors linked to neuropsychiatric disorders.
... and many more!
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Discover how Flex-I can adapt to your research
We bring groundbreaking modularity to neuroscience research. Our technology represents a fundamental rethinking of experimental platforms.
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Detect visual stimuli onset with screen sensors, capture responses with modular pads, buttons or force sensors, and synchronize via TTL I/O channels with olfactometers, EEG, TMS, fNIRS and many other external devices for robust, real-time experiments.
The CyNexo Difference
Built by Researchers, for Researchers
CyNexo is an innovative SME born in SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati of Trieste) with extensive experience in both running and supporting research.
We're not just building hardware, we're creating tools that respect the complexity and dynamism of modern research. We bridge the gap between what neuroscience research demands and what current experimental platforms deliver.
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CEO
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Sales and technical support
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