By Rachael Levy (Reuters) – Neuralink’s announcement last week that small wires in its first patient’s brain had become dislodged is a problem that Elon Musk’s company has known about for years, according to five people familiar with the matter. Three of the sources said the company knew from animal tests it conducted last year… Read More »
Neuralink’s first human brain implant did not go as smoothly as hoped after the device began to separate from the patient’s brain, the company explained in a blog post Wednesday. Nolan Arbaugh, a 29-year-old quadriplegic, had surgery to insert a Neuralink chip into his brain in February. However, there is a series of ultra-thin threads… Read More »
By Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Synchron Inc., rival Elon MuskThe Neuralink brain implant startup is preparing to recruit patients for a large-scale clinical trial needed to gain commercial approval for its device, the company’s CEO told Reuters. Synchron plans to launch an online registration for patients interested in participating in the trial on Monday,… Read More »
Elon Musk showed a nine-minute, live-streamed video demonstration of the patient using the first Neuralink brain implant to play chess. Volunteer Noland Arbaugh, who had the coin-sized chip placed in his brain earlier this year, said he also played the video game Civilization for eight hours. The former athlete, who is paralyzed from the shoulders… Read More »
Putting a computer into someone’s brain used to sound like the stuff of science fiction. Today this is a reality. Academic and commercial groups are testing “brain-computer interface” devices to enable people with disabilities to work more independently. But Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has put this technology front and center in discussions of security, ethics… Read More »
What’s happening Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced this week that his company Neuralink has successfully implanted a brain-computer interface device into a human patient for the first time. The device, a disk the size of a large dime containing thousands of electrodes that can read brain activity, is designed to be implanted through a small… Read More »
Elon Musk said that the brain-computer interface company Neuralink has implanted its first device into people. Eventually, Mr. Musk hopes the system could be used to merge humans with computers, allowing them to interact with artificial intelligence just by thinking, for example. But for now, this method seems to be used in people with quadriplegia… Read More »
Elon Musk said that Neuralink company placed a chip in a person’s brain for the first time. (Reuters) Elon Musk said that one of his companies has successfully implanted a computer chip into the human brain for the first time. The technology entrepreneur said that the start-up company Neuralink implanted the brain chip into a… Read More »