Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants second patient with brain chip

Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants second patient with brain chip

Elon Musk’s Neuralink has implanted a second trial patient with its brain chip, a device designed to give paralysed people the ability to control devices through thought alone.

The chip records brain activity via 1,024 electrodes distributed across 64 flexible leads or “threads”, each thinner than the width of a human hair.

Mr Musk said that the second trial implant in a patient paralysed in a diving accident appeared to have been successful.

“I don’t want to jinx it but it seems to have gone extremely well with the second implant,” the SpaceX chief claimed on Lex Fridman’s podcast. “There’s a lot of signal, a lot of electrodes. It’s working very well.”

By Vishwam Sankaran
Full story at Yahoo News.