Elon Musk’s Neuralink project made huge announcements at the event it held at night. Elon Musk announced that manned tests will now begin.
It also owns SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company and now Twitter. Elon Muskshared big news from another company, Neuralink, which is developing a brain-machine interface. Organizing an event at 05.00 CET, Musk announced that the company will now start tests with the developed chips.
The event started with the demonstration of a video of a monkey integrating the brain-machine interface. Let’s talk about the important developments shown and announced in the event, which lasted about 3 hours.
Monkey with Neuralink chip uses a ‘telepathic’ keyboard:
What a monkey with a Neuralink chip implanted in the brain was capable of was quite impressive. The monkey with the chip was using the on-screen keyboard. Of course, the monkey wasn’t doing this by thinking about words.
Monkey moves the mouse cursor on the screen just by thinking He was bringing it over the letters and words highlighted in yellow. As you can see from the video, this process was going quite smoothly.
PRECISION IMAGE: The operation in which Neuralink was placed in the brain was shared moment by moment
While the Neuralink team shares the current state of the technology, the chip providing the brain-machine interface how it is placed in a living thing also showed. The entire surgical process was performed with a robot.
Neuralink’s chip charges wirelessly:
Of course, the chips Neuralink placed in the brain have a power unit and a capacity. Of course, in order for the chips to be easy to use, a different charging method must be used.
Neuralink also includes wireless charging technology at this point. As you can see in the video above, the monkey’s charger placed on the log above his head, it charges the chip when the monkey goes under it. The graph on the right of the video also shows the power of this charging process in real time, how hot the chip reaches during charging and the current.
Neuralink will even provide machine vision!
In the above part of the event, the team thanks to the Neuralink chip artificial vision explained how they are trying to improve. From the 7th minute of the video, you can watch the representation of the image that the monkey sees with the signals given to its brain.
Nothing is projected onto the screen opposite the monkey. The white dots we see on the screen are sent as signals to the monkey’s brain and processed by the visual cortex. Therefore, the monkey sees these non-existent white dots through signals going to the brain, and responds by moving their eyes.
Of course, this chip will be extremely critical, especially for individuals who have lost their sight. Neuralink also shared the logic of a system that will transfer the image of the outside world to the brain with the graphic above.
The image is taken from a camera, processed by any device such as an iPhone, then the data in this image is sent to Neuralink’s chip. The chip sends signals to the brain allowing the visual cortex to see the image on the camera provides.
It will be possible not only to see, but even to act:
Neuralink’s chip aims to enable not only seeing but even movement. The company also showed how the movement of a pig can be controlled in the example it showed. (Minutes 4.28)
Manned tests will begin in 6 months!
Musk says that the chip developed by Neuralink and implanted in the brain start human trials within 6 months announced that they were waiting. Of course, in order to start these tests, the approval of the US Food and Drug Administration must first be obtained.
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