In a blog post, the company revealed that a number of the chip's connective threads retracted from the subject Noland Arbaugh's brain, which hindered the implant's data speeds and effectiveness.
The first test subject for Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain chip implant startup, has developed a problem just a few weeks after it was inserted.The first test subject for Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain chip implant startup, has developed a problem just a few weeks after it was inserted.
The intent is to study the safety of its implant and surgical robot and to test the functionality of its device, the company said in a 2023 blog post about recruiting trial participants. Ultimately, Neuralink's ambition is to use implants to connect human brains to computers to help, for example, paralyzed people to control smartphones or computers or blind people to regain sight. Like existing brain-machine interfaces, the company's implant would collect electrical signals sent out by the brain and interpret them as actions.
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