Elon Musk said that the first person implanted with a Neuralink brain chip was able to control a mouse on a computer screen using his thoughts.
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The patient appears to have fully recovered [після вживлення імпланту], with no side effects that we know of. The patient can move the mouse across the screen just by thinking about it, says the American billionaire.
Musk promises that Neuralink will restore paralyzed mobility, give people “super vision” and allow people to communicate using opinions rather than words.
The chip was implanted into the person on January 29. Musk said that the first users of Neuralink will be those who have lost the use of their limbs.
Neuralink first introduced the technology of implanting information-reading threads into the brain in the summer of 2019. The goal of the development is to implant “threads” in paralyzed people, which will allow them to work with computers and phones “with the power of thought.” Musk hopes that implants in the future will help people communicate telepathically and download foreign languages.
In August 2020, Neuralink successfully implanted a chip in a pig, connecting its brain to a computer. In February 2021, the company successfully implanted a neuroimplant into the brain of a monkey and even taught it to play a video game.
Already in 2022, the company began to be accused of deadly experiments on animals. In May 2023, the US regulator still allowed Neuralink to test brain implants in humans.
Implant Races
In addition to Neuralink, Chinese scientists from Tsinghua University say they have made “significant progress” in the rehabilitation of the first patient who received their chip on October 24, 2023.
It is stated that the Neural Electronic Opportunity chip allowed a paralyzed person to control a prosthetic arm.
It is “less invasive” than Musk’s device because it is injected not into brain tissue, but into the epidural space between the brain and skull.
It should help patients with spinal cord injuries, epilepsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, etc., and also allow the integration of computer and brain intelligence, expanding the computational capabilities of the brain.
The device has no batteries and is charged remotely. The electrodes pick up nerve signals and send them wirelessly to an external receiver attached to the scalp. The signals can then be decoded using a telephone or computer.
Source: Racurs
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