Before answering this question, let's take a look at what brain-computer technology is. Brain-computer interface is a direct communication and control channel established between the human brain and computers or other electronic devices, through which a person can express ideas or manipulate equipment directly through the brain without the need for language or movement, which can effectively enhance the ability of patients with severe physical disabilities to communicate with the outside world or control the external environment, in order to improve the quality of life of patients. Brain-computer interface technology is a cross-disciplinary technology involving neuroscience, signal detection, signal processing, pattern recognition and other disciplines.
At the Fremont, California, headquarters of Neuralink, a brain-computer interface startup, its founder Elon Musk spoke Friday afternoon, local time. Elon Musk demonstrated the latest advances made in the company's technology on a pig.
For the past few months, Neuralink has been implanting a 22.5-millimeter-diameter, 8-millimeter-thick device in a pig's brain. The hardware has a computing chip with 64 tiny threads hanging off of it with sensors on the end. During the procedure, the animals were brought to the operating room at the Fremont facility and anesthetized before surgeons performed a craniotomy on them. Once a portion of the skull is removed, the robot begins placing the threads into specific parts of the brain so that the sensors are close enough to the neurons that they can read clear signals of brain activity. The process takes about 30 minutes as the robot uses computer vision software, high-end cameras and other technology to align the threads with precise accuracy.
According to Musk, Neuralink will first apply the technology to the medical field, meaning that the initial users will be paraplegics who have lost their mobility due to brain or spinal cord injuries, and they will recruit a small number of volunteers to test treatments for this in safe enough conditions.
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