American entrepreneur Elon Musk, during a podcast with YouTube blogger Lex Friedman, said that the second person has already received an implant from the Neuralink company, the procedure was successful.
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“I don’t want to jinx it, but it looks like everything went very well with the second implant. There are a lot of signals, a lot of electrodes. It works very well,” Musk said.
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According to Musk, there are 400 electrodes working in the patient’s brain.
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Earlier, Nolan Arbaugh, the first person with a Neuralink implant, told RIA Novosti that despite the fact that previously some of the electrodes had moved away from the brain (now “they work plus or minus 15%”), the efficiency of the device in his brain is only growing. According to Arbaugh, if the next participant in the experiment can get all 100% or 90% of the electrode threads to work, then “he will be able to do something that is not possible for me now, and this gives great hope for the future.”
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Musk noted that the company hopes that the number of patients with Neuralink implants will reach 10 by the end of the year.
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In January 2024, entrepreneur and founder of Neuralink Elon Musk announced that the world’s first person received a brain implant. He was 29-year-old Noland Arbo, who was completely paralyzed as a result of an accident in which his spinal cord was damaged. Using Neuralink technology, a small device similar to a button battery was implanted in the area of Arbo’s brain, which is responsible for processing commands to the motor apparatus, from which microwires with electrodes extending, receiving signals from the patient’s brain. Via a wireless network, brain commands are transmitted to an application on a computer, and thus the owner of the implant is able to control it using the “power of thought.” According to the company, the technology is designed to help people who have lost the use of their limbs.
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In early July, Elon Musk announced that the implant would soon be installed on another participant in the experiment.
