CNBC May 8, 2024
Key Points
– Neuralink on Wednesday said part of its brain implant malfunctioned in the weeks following its first in-human procedure.
– The company has built a brain-computer interface that could help patients with paralysis control external technologies with their minds.
– In January, Neuralink implanted the device in a 29-year-old patient named Noland Arbaugh.
– A number of threads have retracted from Arbaugh’s brain, Neuralink said in a blog post Wednesday.
Elon Musk‘s startup Neuralink on Wednesday said part of its brain implant malfunctioned after it put the system in a human patient for the first time.
Neuralink has built a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, that could eventually help patients with paralysis control external technology using only their...