Elon Musk and Neuralink have yet to share more information about who received the brain implants.
Neuralink, the company led by Elon Musk, achieved a major milestone on Sunday by implanting its first brain-computer interface device into a patient. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, announced the development and revealed that the first product, named “Telepathy,” would allow people to control their phones or computers using just their thoughts. The company is developing a brain implant designed to help severely paralyzed people control external technology using only nerve signals. The main beneficiaries of this technology will be people who have lost limbs.
To provide context for its availability, Musk cited the example of theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who battled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, for more than 55 years until his death in 2018. The debilitating neurodegenerative disease left the scientific great in a wheelchair for more than 55 years. Five years later, he can only communicate using a tablet attached to his wheelchair.
Musk wrote on the of people. Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a typist or an auctioneer. That’s the goal.”
first @Neuralink The product is called Telepathy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2024
Just think about it to control your phone or computer and control almost any device from them.
The initial users will be those who have lost limbs.
Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a typist or auctioneer. That’s the goal.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 30, 2024
Elon Musk and Neuralink have yet to share more information about who implanted the brain or whether it works.
Elon Musk said back in November 2022 that Neuralink would begin human testing within six months. They previously showed a video of a monkey using its brain to control a computer cursor. A
Although Musk has often been optimistic about his company’s timeline, Neuralink received FDA approval for human trials in May. The company is currently recruiting for its first clinical trial, looking for people with limited hand use due to spinal cord injury or ALS.
Neuralink’s main technology involves a technology called “association,” a device about the size of five coins that is implanted inside the human brain through invasive surgery.
neural network website said: “The research involves placing a small, seemingly invisible implant in the part of the brain responsible for planning movement. The device is designed to interpret a person’s neural activity so they can operate the computer simply by wanting to move or smartphone, no wires or physical movement required.”
Neuralink has more than 400 employees and managed to secure at least $363 million in funding last year.
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