Elon Musk says that Neuralink will be ready for human trials in 6 months. The aim is to create a device that facilitates a connection between the human brain and technology, thereby allowing paralysed individuals to communicate via tech
Did you ever think we’d live in a world where humans could control technology with their minds? Sure, Black Mirror’s Grain Implant certainly proposed the use cases of such tech, but in all honestly, these developments seemed fairly far off in the future. Until now. During the company’s latest event, CEO Elon Musk stated that Neuralink will be ready for human trials in about 6 months. “We think probably in about six months, we should be able to have a Neuralink installed in a human,” said Musk, when presenting Neuralink’s latest developments.
Neuralink is a start-up that creates brain-control interfaces (BCI) in the form of implants that are sewn into one’s grey matter. The company showed off its latest “sewing machine-like robot” last year, stating that it can implant 1,024 threads onto the brain. The 5-micron-wide threads collect information that is then passed onto the microchip (outside the skull) for processing.
