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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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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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 ...