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Founder and owner Elon Musk said the implantation went “extremely well” but remained tight lipped on further details.
Neuralink has successfully implanted a second patient with its brain-chip device, according to the company’s owner Elon Musk.
The brain-computer interface (BCI) is designed to give paralysed people the ability to control external secondary devices with thoughts.
Musk announced the news on a podcast, saying the procedure had gone “extremely well”. The start-up founder unveiled few other details, stating only the second participant had a spinal cord injury similar to the first patient implanted with the device earlier this year.
The device uses 1,024 electrodes to detect neural activity – Musk said that 400 of the implanted electrodes in the second patient...
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