Elon Musk recently revealed that the first human patient to undergo a Neuralink brain implant as part of the company’s initial clinical trial. The company has now released a brief public demonstration of the brain-computer interface (BCI) in action.
The company live streamed a demo featuring a 29-year-old man named Nolan Arbaugh, who had been paralyzed from the neck down following a diving accident eight years ago. Arbaugh explained that after receiving the implant, which he described as a “super easy” surgery, he had to learn to differentiate between “imagined movement versus attempted movement” in order to control a cursor on a screen.
“A lot of what we started out with was attempting to move,” Arbaugh said. “I would attempt to move, say, my right hand left, right forward, back. And from there, I think it just became intuitive for me to start imagining the cursor moving.”
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2024-03-20 18:56:59
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