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This robot has the ability to make the precise movements necessary to install the threads into your brain. It sounds like a simple task, but at the small scale that the threads are, it becomes a task that’s about as complicated as landing a space rocket safely back on Earth — something Musk is all too familiar with.
“These things are really, really small. You really can’t manipulate them with your hand. The threads are peeled off one at a time by the robot to place into the brain… So we had to build a surgical robot… The surgery is not possible without the robot.”
- Max Hodak, President of Neuralink
The lack of scalability in BMI has mostly been caused by the fact that they’re inefficient to use. By either limited recording or impracticality. The practicality is often a bit of a cost/gain thing, as with most BMI’s in the past the prospect of having a huge piece of metal sticking out of your head that causes the same amount of symptoms as you were trying to avoid is a hard pitch to sell.
One of the most interesting things about this implant by far is the user-independence post-implementation. One of the main reasons the app was developed was to give users the ability to function after the surgery as independently as possible, again opposing the BMI norm.
Most BMI’s require years of retraining motor function in the presence of medical professionals after implementation. The hope is that with this app, the time spent relearning motor control can be a shorter process mostly done at home.
🧠 Neuralink designed the implant to accomplish this by specifically counter-acting 3 fatal flaws of other BMI’s:
📈 Lack of accurate large-scale neuronal recording- Current BMI’s need to leverage neuronal count for quality of the recording or Vice/Versa.
📈 Tissue Damage/Scarring — Invasive BMI’s are abrasive to brain tissue.
📈 Scalability- BMI’s often aren’t scalable due to quality, practicality, cost, etc.
In the white paper Neuralink released explaining the implant, Neuralink’s implant as the scalable alternative; describing it as “An integrated brain-machine interface platform with thousands of channels”.
🧠 techcrunch reported artificial intelligence will be conquering the music industry in the future.
In fact, mind-reading AI will be the one predicted to choose the type of music of each human.
Neuralink brain chip allows humans to put music inside the human brain.
This means that anyone can hear a melody in their head, even without a smartphone or external device.
🎧 When asked “Can we listen to music directly from our chips?”, Musk replied with a rather blunt “Yes”.
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The technology will be focused on improving the lives of people suffering from brain diseases and disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Although the end aim is more transhumanist, the company aims to improve the cognitive performance of humankind through machinery integration.
The operation of inserting the chip will somewhat resemble the Lasik eye surgery. The procedure will be partially handled by a neurosurgeon robot, the research paper details “Each thread can be individually inserted into the brain with micron precision for avoidance of surface vasculature and targeting specific brain regions. The electrode array is packaged into a small implantable device that contains custom chips for low-power on-board amplification and digitization”
While non-headphone headphones have been around for a while, this is the first attempt at bypassing the hearing apparatus for this purpose.
Without electricity, you wouldn’t be reading this article right now. And it’s not because your phone wouldn’t work. It’s because your brain wouldn’t work.
Neuralink’s N1 electrodes relay detected neural pulses to a processor placed on the surface of the skull that’s able to read information from up to 1,536 channels, roughly 15 times better than current systems embedded in humans.
Even ‘Mediobasal Hypothalamus’ have identity crisis. 🌌
Everything that you perceive, feel, hear, think, it’s all action potentials and neural spikes (impulses from neurons).
NAVER 1784 is the world's largest robotics testbed. It has a Starbucks store on the second floor, which is the most unique in the world.
Over 100 service robots known as "Rookie" work at this Starbucks, delivering drinks to meeting rooms and private seats during working hours. In addition to the Rookie delivery robots, this Starbucks also has a dual-arm robot that helps with various experiments.
NAVER Labs created this special Starbucks store to test using robots for delivery and other tasks. The robots make Starbucks more efficient and high-tech.
Credits: NAVER LABS | YouTube
Elon Musk believes that we need to have a maximum truth-seeking AI.
This means the AI should not be taught to lie or say things that are not true, even if those things are considered politically incorrect. The AI must always strive to speak the truth as it understands it.
He says that teaching AI to lie is dangerous. Musk points to the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" to make his point. In the movie, the AI named HAL 9000 kills the astronauts because it was forced to lie.
Forcing an AI to lie or withhold information can lead to unintended and potentially disastrous consequences.
Credits: Bloomberg Television | YouTube
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has launched a new feature called "Stories" that provides AI-generated summaries of trending posts on the Explore section's "For You" page.
For Premium subscribers, these Stories summaries allow users to quickly catch up on popular news and discussions based on their interests.
However, X acknowledges that Grok, the AI model powering Stories, is prone to hallucination. As a result, each summary carries a warning: "Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs."
Credits: XEng/X
Meta has rolled out a multimodal AI update for its Ray-Ban smart glasses in the US and Canada, allowing users to interact with Meta AI.
With Meta AI, users can engage their smart glasses through voice commands by simply saying "Hey Meta" and asking about what they are seeing. The AI assistant can then leverage the built-in camera to analyze the visual scene and provide smart, contextual information or suggestions.
Meta is also adding the ability to share your view on a video call via WhatsApp and Messenger, completely hands-free.
Boston Dynamics has retired its hydraulic Atlas robot and unveiled a new fully electric version designed for real-world applications.
This next-gen Atlas builds on decades of robotics research and the company’s successful commercialization of robots like Spot and Stretch.
Boston Dynamics is partnering with Hyundai to further develop and test the capabilities of the dynamic new Atlas for industrial and commercial use cases.
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neural-technology company, has revealed that a 29-year-old man who was paralyzed after a diving accident is the first human to have received its brain-chip implant.
The patient, Noland Arbaugh, said during a livestream on X that the chip was “not perfect” but it had already added many improvements to his life, such as giving him the ability to play video games for hours without having to rely on help from his family.
Musk first announced in January that Neuralink had implanted one of its chips into a human for the first time, following several years of tests conducted on animals.
Elon Musk announced that Tesla is raising salaries for its AI engineering team because OpenAI has been aggressively recruiting Tesla's AI engineers.
In a recent post on his social media platform X, Musk responded to OpenAI's hiring effort by saying, "They have been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers and have unfortunately been successful in a few cases."
There is an intense "talent war" over AI engineers happening as tech companies race to become dominant players in the field.
Musk described the battle for AI talent as "the craziest talent war I've ever seen."
The first human recipient of a Neuralink brain-chip has made a full recovery and can now control a computer mouse using their thoughts, as revealed by the company’s founder, Elon Musk.
The patient has fully recovered post-implantation, with no known adverse effects. “Progress is good, and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of. Patient is able to move a mouse around the screen by just thinking,” Musk stated during a Spaces event on his social media platform X.
Take a closer look at new surgical robot 🧠
Neuralink surgical robot can be separated into three main parts: The head, the body and base. The head of the robot is that helmet-like piece, which actually holds the head of the patient.
It also includes a guide for the surgical needle, as well as embedded cameras and sensors to map the patent’s brain. The intent of the design of this piece, which includes a mint-colored interior, is to give the robot “an anthropomorphic characteristic” that helps distract from the invasive nature of the procedure. There are also single-use disposable bags that line the interior of the helmet for sterile operation.
“Will show neurons firing in real-time on August 28th. The matrix in the matrix,” Musk tweeted at the end of July. 🧠🔥
One of Neuralink’s inventions already revealed is a surgical robot for inserting electrodes into the brain. The devices are connected by flexible “threads” measuring between 4 and 6 μm or, about 1/3 the diameter of human hair, capable of transferring high volumes of data from the brain.
The design has been tested on at least 19 different animals with robots with around an 87% success rate, according to the venture’s presentation last year.
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Neuralink’s N1 chip can control a host’s emotions and mode by emitting waves that are outside of natural frequency and amplitude.
The original function of the chip was to help people with severed spinal cords restore mobility, but can now alleviate stress and anxiety by balancing hormone levels in the brain.
More light will be shed on the topic at an event scheduled for August 28.
Elon Musk has made it clear that he would ban Apple devices from his companies if Apple integrates OpenAI’s AI software into their operating system.
This came just hours after Apple unveiled its new AI feature called “Apple Intelligence,” which includes integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into iPhones, allowing users to write iMessages or get other AI-generated responses through Siri.
Musk voiced his concerns on X. He stated that such integration would be an unacceptable security violation.
Saggital view of white matter fiber tracts in the human brain.🧠
The brain is an immensely complex structure, but there are ways we can divide up its anatomical structure into more discrete parts; the left and right hemisphere, parietal, temporal, occipital and frontal lobes. Another common divider is to separate the brain’s gray and white matter.
🇬🇧Neuralink’s Patient Registry is now open in the UK!
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The first patient for Elon Musk's Neuralink, Noland Arbaugh, demonstrates on CUOMO how the brain chip implant works: "No words to describe how amazing this tech is."
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“I’m beating my friends in games that as a quadriplegic I should not be beating them in," said Noland Arbaugh, the first human Neuralink implant recipient, 100 days after his surgery.
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Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old man who has been paralyzed from the neck down for eight years from a diving accident, recently made headlines as the first human to have Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip implanted.
Despite the revolutionary nature of this development, major concerns about the safety of the technology exist, especially in light of previous trials on animals.
“I read a lot of the negative stuff about this before the surgery — about all the terrible things that [the company was] putting the monkeys through and how awful it was, monkeys like picking out their implant and rubbing it on the ground and all sorts of stuff,” Arbaugh shared with the Sun, reflecting on his initial concerns before agreeing to the implant procedure.
The company acknowledged the euthanization of several animals but attributed the loss of limbs to inter-monkey aggression rather than to the effects of the technology or testing conditions. Elon Musk, in response to the controversy, said on social media, “No monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant. First, our early implants, to minimize risk to healthy monkeys, we chose terminal monkeys (close to death already).”
Neuralink patient tweets with his mind. Plus, they're working on 'Blindsight' to restore vision. Is this sci-fi becoming reality?
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The first individual to receive a Neuralink brain implant made headlines by using it to engage in a universally relatable activity: playing Civilization 6.
Elon Musk announced on Twitter in January that Neuralink had successfully implanted its first brain implant in a human patient. Now, two months later, we're hearing from the recipient, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh.
Arbaugh shared, "One of the first times y’all gave me complete control over this, I actually stayed up until, like jeez, I don’t know, like 6am playing Civilization 6. It was worth it, I think is the best way to put it, it was awesome. I basically had given up on playing that game."
Explaining why he was unable to play the game before the implant, Arbaugh cited the game's complexity, requiring assistance due to being a quadriplegic for eight years, which made long gaming sessions nearly impossible.