Forbes June 2, 2024
If you’ve become unplugged from the evolving headlines surrounding Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface (BCI) startup, Neuralink, here’s a recap:
- In January, Neuralink implanted their first participant, Noland Arbaugh, with the N1 implant at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. According to Neuralink’s website, “The N1 Implant records neural activity through 1024 electrodes distributed across 64 threads. These highly-flexible, ultra-thin threads are key to minimize damage during implantation and beyond.”
- In mid-March, Noland was announced to the world via livestream by Neuralink (on Musk’s platform, X), playing games using his implant.
- On May 8, a company blog post revealed that in the weeks following the surgery, “a number of threads retracted from the brain, resulting in a net...
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