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Human Brain Implant by Neuralink
- 16 Jan 2025
- 2 min read
Elon Musk announced that a 3rd person has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, to connect the nervous system to machines.
- Neuralink plans to expand its trials with the goal of implanting the experimental devices in 20 to 30 more people in 2025.
- Brain-Computer Interface (BCI): BCI is a technology that allows direct communication between the brain and external devices, such as computers or prosthetics, bypassing traditional neuromuscular pathways like nerves and muscles.
- BCIs use sensors to detect brain activity, translating it into commands that allow individuals to control devices or interact with the world using their thoughts.
- Potential Applications: Brain interfacing for conditions like epilepsy, Parkinson's, and neurodegenerative diseases.
- Enabling control of prosthetics and wheelchairs through thought.
- Restoring communication for paralyzed individuals.
- Enhancing VR/AR experiences using thoughts.
- It is different from brainoware that uses brain organoids and microelectrodes to create an "organoid neural network (ONN)" integrating living brain tissue into computing.
- Brain organoids are 3D stem-cell-derived tissues that mimic human brain structure.
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