After years of delays, Neuralink started recruiting patients for a clinical trial in the fall after receiving approval from the US Food and Drug Administration and a hospital ethics board. The company is developing a device called a brain-computer interface. Musk has said that Neuralink’s ultimate goal is to 'achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence,' but for now he’s starting with a far more modest aim: allowing paralyzed people to control a cursor or keyboard with their brains.
They required clunky setups using thick cables that made them impractical to use at home. Neuralink’s system is designed to be wireless and records neural activity through more than 1,000 electrodes distributed across 64 threads, each thinner than a human hair. The most common device used in BCI research, the Utah array, records from 100 electrodes. The company has also been beset by controversy, particularly around its treatment of research animals.
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