The company's Elon Musk Neuralink has received approval from The U.s. Food and Drug (FDA) for the implanted chip and her innovative brain of a patient for a second. The milestone comes as the company resolved issues encountered during the test of a first in human, by making the necessary improvements, including the introduction of a few of the wires the ultra-thin device, deeper and deeper into your brain.
Nolan Arbaugh was the first one who received the implant in the çipit of the brain's Neuralink, after a tragic accident with a car in 2016 that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Even though some of the wires were separated from the brain to the Arbaugh a couple of weeks after the surgery, causing a decrease in the joints, the effective, the company will be able to modifikonte therefore, to enhance the translation of the signal, without the need to remove the chip.
Thanks to implant in the brain, Arbaugh be able to play video games, to sail to the internet, and to control the cursor of a computer using only his thoughts. It also broke the record on the world as quickly as you can, to control the dragged tracking in his mind, immediately after the operation. However, the company was faced with several challenges, such as the presence of air trapped in the skull of the Arbaugh, after the operation, an initial, a phenomenon known as pneumocephalus, which, if left untreated, it can cause serious complications.
The goals of the next Elon Musk
Neuralink is being tested implant to be given to the patient to be paralyzed with the ability to use the device, the digital thinking, a perspective that can help people with injuries to the spinal cord. Musk aims to June for the patient and the second of which will be implantohet, and aims for this year to be the host of 10 people.
In the future, the company plans to expand the capabilities of the çipit in the physical world to facilitate the control of their robotikë, wheelchairs, and other technologies that can help to increase the independence of people with tetraplegji.
Musk also showed for the first time, the chip in the year 2020, thus demonstrating the technology in a pig named Gertrude, the activity of the brain, of which it was shown on a big screen as it was moving around a mbylljeje. In the year 2022, the world saw a few of the information, by using your mind to play a video game. And now... we're a patient of a second. An achievement is highly respected for Neuralink.
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