🤩 A Neuralink Patient Learned to Control a Robotic Arm

Elon Musk's company Neuralink has, for the first time, demonstrated how a patient with a brain-implanted neurochip can control a robotic arm using only the power of thought ⤴️

The patient wrote the word "Convoy" with a marker—the name of the company's new research project on applying neurochips in robotics. U.S. regulators recently approved the study.

🖥 The first person with a Neuralink implant, Noland Arbo, is already fully utilizing a computer. He writes long texts and plays games on par with people using regular keyboards and mice.

👉 The Neuralink neurochip is smaller than a coin, yet it processes signals from 1,500 electrodes—and this number can be increased to 4,000. The electrodes transmit impulses from the brain's motor neurons to external devices via Bluetooth. When the patient thinks about moving their hand, the signal from their brain activates motors in the robotic arm, causing it to move.

👉 No additional devices (joysticks, cables, or control panels) are needed to operate the robotic arm.

👉 Neuralink could help people with neurological conditions (such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which Stephen Hawking lived with) or severe spinal injuries control prosthetics or even a full robotic exoskeleton (like in the movie "Atlas"). The company has started accepting applications from potential patients to be included in a special registry of candidates for neural implantation.

More about brain implants:

🧠 Blindsight: How Neuralink Plans to Restore Vision

🧠 Cyberpunk in Action: How Living Neurons Work from Neuralink's Competitor

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