Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has recently achieved a significant milestone by implanting a brain chip in a human for the first time. This implant, roughly the size of a coin, contains 1024 electrodes distributed across 64 threads. These threads connect to the brain to enable wireless communication with smartphones and other devices. The patient, whose identity has not been disclosed, is recovering well, and initial results show promising neuron spike detection. The goal of Neuralink’s PRIME study is to implant a small, cosmetically invisible device in the brain to interpret neural activity, allowing control of a computer or smartphone purely by thinking about movements, without any physical motion or cables.
The accompanying image illustrates Neuralink’s groundbreaking achievement in brain-computer interface technology.
