MOSCOW, August 5 American entrepreneur Elon Musk, during a podcast hosted by YouTube blogger Lex Fridman, said that a second person has already received an implant from Neuralink, and the procedure was successful.
«I don't want to jinx it, but it looks like the second implant went very well. There's a lot of signals, a lot of electrodes. It works very well,» Musk said.
According to Musk, there are 400 electrodes working in the patient's brain.
Earlier, Nolan Arbo, the first person with a Neuralink implant, said that despite the fact that some of the electrodes had previously come off the brain (now «they're working at plus or minus 15%»), the efficiency of the device in his brain is only growing. According to Arbo, if the next participant in the experiment can get all 100% or 90% of the electrode threads working, then «he'll be able to do something that I can't do now, and that gives great hope for the future.»
Musk noted that the company hopes that the number of patients with Neuralink implants will reach 10 by the end of the year.
In January 2024, entrepreneur and Neuralink founder Elon Musk announced that the world's first person had received a brain implant. It was 29-year-old Noland Arbo, who was completely paralyzed as a result of an accident in which his spinal cord was damaged. Using Neuralink technology, a small device similar to a button battery was implanted in the area of Arbo's brain responsible for processing commands to the motor apparatus, from which microwires with electrodes extend that receive signals from the patient's brain. Brain commands are wirelessly transmitted to an application on a computer, and thus the owner of the implant is able to control it using the «power of thought.» According to the company, the technology is designed to help people who have lost the ability to use their limbs.
In early July, Elon Musk announced that the implant would soon be installed in another participant in the experiment.