Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that its most secretive brain-computer interface technology startup Neuralink will provide a key update on its progress on August 28.<\/p>\n
To help paralysed people control devices and empower people with brain disorders, Neuralink last year unveiled tiny brain threads in a chip which is long lasting, usable at home and has the potential to replace cumbersome devices currently used as brain-machine interfaces.<\/p>\n
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk may announce human trials for the Neuralink technology that has been successful on mice and even apes.<\/p>\n
If you cant beat em, join em Neuralinks mission statement, Musk tweeted on Thursday. Progress update August 28.<\/p>\n
In February this year, Musk promised an awesome update by Neuralink.<\/p>\n
The profound impact of high bandwidth, high precision neural interfaces is underappreciated. Neuralink may have this in a human as soon as this year, Musk had tweeted.<\/p>\n
Wait until you see the next version vs what was presented last year. Its awesome, he added.<\/p>\n
The technology has a module that sits outside the head, behind the ear, and receives information from threads embedded in the brain.<\/p>\n
Controlled by an iPhone app, the chip called N1 sensor with just a USB port coming out can have as many as 3,072 electrodes per array distributed across 96 threads each thread smaller than the tiniest human hair.<\/p>\n
The chip which will be wireless in the future can read, transmit high-volume data and amplify signals from the brain.<\/p>\n
This has the potential to solve several brain-related diseases. The idea is to understand and treat brain disorders, preserve and enhance your own brain and create a well-aligned future, Musk told the audience at the launch event last year.<\/p>\n
Founded as a medical research company in 2016, Neuralink has hired several high-profile neuroscientists from various universities.<\/p>\n
The company is focused on creating devices resembling tiny sewing machines that can be implanted in the human brain to improve memory or more direct interfacing with computing devices.<\/p>\n
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