Neuralink
@neuralink
Creating a general-purpose, high-bandwidth interface to the brain
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We've been exploring how clinical trial participants can control a powered wheelchair — with their minds.
Here's how we’re doing it 🧵
The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.
Here's how we did it 🧵
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After a car accident left her paralyzed from the neck down, Audrey didn’t think she would be able to draw or paint again.
20 years later, she became the first female participant in our clinical trials. Now, she uses her brain-computer interface to create art with her mind.
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We're building a surgical robot capable of reaching any brain region. The goal: a generalized neural interface to help solve any condition that originates in the brain.
Our robot is designed to insert hundreds of ultra-fine, flexible threads with thousands of electrodes within microns of targeted neurons while avoiding vasculature and adapting to real-time brain motion.
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ALS is a disease that takes everything. Our goal is to give something back.
Kenneth, who has been losing his ability to move and speak due to ALS, is exploring how Neuralink’s brain-computer interface technology can help translate neural signals into life-changing impact.
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