MobiHealth News June 23, 2025
The vision-restoring device will be implanted in humans within six to 12 months, following a successful monkey implantation that has remained active for three years, Musk said.
Elon Musk announced during a Y Combinator event that his brain-computer interface implant startup Neuralink will conduct its first human implants of Blindsight within six to 12 months after a monkey has had the implant active for three years.
Blindsight aims to restore vision to individuals with visual impairments, including congenital blindness, by implanting a microelectrode array into the visual cortex of the person’s brain. The array then activates neurons, which then provide the individual with a visual image.
“In the next six to 12 months, we’ll be doing our first implants...
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