One significant step closer to the billionaire’s dream of allowing humans to operate computers with their minds is the first brain implant performed on a human by Elon Musk‘s Neuralink Corp. Musk has also assigned a name to the implant device for the first time. And here’s everything you need to know about Neuralink and its first human trial.

Although Elon Musk is well-known for founding well-known businesses like SpaceX and Tesla, the billionaire also has a few odd endeavors. He claimed to have started one of them to create “symbiosis” between artificial intelligence and the human brain.

Musk founded a neural interface technology firm called Neuralink. It is creating a device that would be implanted into a person’s brain to monitor and stimulate brain function. As Business Insider first reported, Musk also had twins with Shivon Zilis, a prominent Neuralink executive. Musk announced in January 2024 that the first human patient of Neuralink had gotten a brain implant.

Although Musk frequently highlights his futuristic vision for the technology, there are some possible immediate medical applications for it.
And here’s everything you need to know about Neuralink:
In 2016, Musk secretly established Neuralink.

When The Wall Street Journal revealed Neuralink’s existence in 2017, the world first learned about it.

Not until 2019—during a live-streamed presentation when Musk and other Neuralink executives showcased their technology—did the business make its first significant public appearance.

Neuralink is currently developing two bits of equipment. A chip with electrodes extending into the patient’s brain would be the first to be implanted in their skull.

Neuralink is working on a coin-sized chip that would be implanted in a person’s skull. A network of microscopic wires, each about 20 times thinner than a human hair, branches out into the patient’s brain from the chip.
1,024 electrodes on the wires allow for the monitoring of brain activity and the potential for electrical brain stimulation. Researchers can examine this data on computers after it is wirelessly transmitted by the device.
A robot that can implant the chip automatically is the second.

Similar to a sewing machine, the robot would operate by punching flexible wires coming from a Neuralink chip into a person’s brain with a stiff needle.
In January 2021, Neuralink published a video showcasing the robot.
According to Musk, the device might make inserting Neuralink’s electrodes as simple as LASIK eye surgery. Neuroscientists previously told Insider in 2019 that the machine has some very promising properties, even though this is a bold claim.

A feature that would automatically modify the needle to account for a patient’s brain movement—the brain movements during surgery in tandem with breathing and heartbeat—was brought to the attention of University of Southern California neurologist Andrew Hires.

The robot is currently eight feet tall, and Woke Studios designed it while Neuralink is working on the underlying technology.

Neuralink demonstrated one of its devices inside a pig named Gertrude in 2020.

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