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The long term goal, according to Neuralink, is to give patients the ability to control entire devices with their thoughts. SEE MORE: Elon Musk's Neuralink implants first device in human brain
Neuralink's ultimate objective is to enhance the mind. "That's a fine goal and maybe a very important one but it's not our goal. We are a physician-led company," said Mager.
The Neuralink implant, which has over 1,000 electrodes and 64 threads, experienced a malfunction after a number of threads retracted from the brain, which decreased the number of effective electrodes.
A thought recording and reproduction device refers to any machine which is able to both directly record and reproduce, via a brain-computer interface, the thoughts, emotions, dreams or other neural/cognitive events of a subject for that or other subjects to experience. While currently residing within mostly fictional displays of the capacity of ...
Neuralink did not immediately reply to Reuters' request for further details. The firm successfully implanted a chip on its first human patient last month, after receiving approval for human trial ...
So far, Neuralink's electrodes are too big to record the firing of individual neurons, so they can record only the firing of a group of neurons; Neuralink representatives believe this issue may be mitigated algorithmically, but it is computationally expensive and does not produce exact results.
Arbaugh had received an implant from the company in January and could control a computer mouse using his thoughts, Musk said last month. Musk's Neuralink shows first brain-chip patient playing ...
Neuralink released a nine-minute video in which its first human patient, who is paralyzed below his shoulders, appears to move a cursor across a laptop screen with nothing but his thoughts.