Elon Musk's Neuralink says tiny wires of brain chip in first patient now stable
tiny wires of Neuralink's brain chip implant used in the first participant in a trial run by Elon Musk's company have become «more or less very stable», a company executive said on Wednesday.
The company had in May said that a number of tiny wires inside the brain of Noland Arbaugh, who is paralyzed from the shoulders down due to a 2016 diving accident, had pulled out of position.
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So far, Arbaugh, based in Arizona, was the only patient to have received the implant, but Musk said he hopes to have participants in the high single digits this year.
The company is now taking risk mitigation measures such as skull sculpting and reducing carbon dioxide concentration in the blood to normal level in patients, the company's executives said in a live stream on social media platform X.
«In upcoming implants, our plan is to sculpt the surface of the skull very intentionally to minimize the gap under the implant… that will put it closer to the brain and eliminate some of the tension on the threads,» Matthew MacDougall, Neuralink's head of
