The company will implant a computer in the brains of more than 22,000 people by 2030.
Neuralink plans to perform operations to implant its brain implant in 11 people in 2024 and more than 22,000 by 2030. This is reported by Bloomberg in a report by one of Elon Musk's biographers, Ashley Vance.
According to Vance, the company has not yet implanted its device in humans, but has received permission from the Food and Drug Administration to launch clinical trials. Earlier, the FDA rejected Neuralink's application for human trials due to safety concerns, including that the wires connected to the brain chip could move inside the head or that the chip could overheat.
In September, the company began recruiting participants for its first human trial. In a blog post, Neuralink said it is looking for people who have paralysis of all four limbs due to spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The company says it eventually wants to create a device that will create a kind of symbiosis between man and machine and allow people to send messages or play games using only their thoughts. But first, the company hopes to help people with neurological disorders.
Despite a surge of interest from thousands of potential patients, "the company is still looking for its first volunteer, or"someone who will agree to have a surgeon cut out a piece of their skull so that a large robot can insert a series of electrodes and ultra-thin wires into the patient's brain."
Vance claims that it will take a surgeon a couple of hours to perform a craniectomy, and then about 25 minutes for the robot to insert the device along with an array of about 64 ultra-thin threads. The biographer said that the device will replace the removed part of the skull. Vance added that the filaments are about 1 / 14th the thickness of a human hair.
Vance wrote that Neuralink has performed 155 robot-assisted implantation operations on a variety of animals, including pigs and monkeys . But Elon Musk continued to insist that the robot move faster, as well as that the operation be carried out without human help.
According to the biographer, Musk pointed out the need to compete with other startups in the field of brain-computer interaction, such as Synchron, which have already begun human trials. Elon Musk said that Neuralink needs to accelerate in order to keep up with artificial intelligence and the possibility of an AI that is not friendly to humans.
Neuralink plans to perform operations to implant its brain implant in 11 people in 2024 and more than 22,000 by 2030. This is reported by Bloomberg in a report by one of Elon Musk's biographers, Ashley Vance.
According to Vance, the company has not yet implanted its device in humans, but has received permission from the Food and Drug Administration to launch clinical trials. Earlier, the FDA rejected Neuralink's application for human trials due to safety concerns, including that the wires connected to the brain chip could move inside the head or that the chip could overheat.
In September, the company began recruiting participants for its first human trial. In a blog post, Neuralink said it is looking for people who have paralysis of all four limbs due to spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The company says it eventually wants to create a device that will create a kind of symbiosis between man and machine and allow people to send messages or play games using only their thoughts. But first, the company hopes to help people with neurological disorders.
Despite a surge of interest from thousands of potential patients, "the company is still looking for its first volunteer, or"someone who will agree to have a surgeon cut out a piece of their skull so that a large robot can insert a series of electrodes and ultra-thin wires into the patient's brain."
Vance claims that it will take a surgeon a couple of hours to perform a craniectomy, and then about 25 minutes for the robot to insert the device along with an array of about 64 ultra-thin threads. The biographer said that the device will replace the removed part of the skull. Vance added that the filaments are about 1 / 14th the thickness of a human hair.
Vance wrote that Neuralink has performed 155 robot-assisted implantation operations on a variety of animals, including pigs and monkeys . But Elon Musk continued to insist that the robot move faster, as well as that the operation be carried out without human help.
According to the biographer, Musk pointed out the need to compete with other startups in the field of brain-computer interaction, such as Synchron, which have already begun human trials. Elon Musk said that Neuralink needs to accelerate in order to keep up with artificial intelligence and the possibility of an AI that is not friendly to humans.
