Neuralink Completes A Second Human Transplant Successfully

Even though there was a small concern two months later, there was a lot of excitement when Neuralink demonstrated its brain-computer interface (BCI) with the first successful transplant. However, it appears that the business has since performed a second successful human transplant; the recipient of the second transplant was not named, nor was there much publicity for them.

According to Reuters, Neuralink’s owner, Elon Musk, revealed the existence of the second successful human transplant over an eight-hour podcast. Apart from the fact that they had also experienced a spinal cord injury, not much more has been revealed about this individual. Musk stated that he anticipates the firm providing the implant to eight additional patients this year as part of its clinical trials, but he did not disclose the date of the second patient’s operation either.

According to the story, Musk stated, “I don’t want to jinx it but it seems to have gone extremely well with the second implant” on the podcast. “There’s a lot of signals, a lot of electrodes,” he said. It’s functioning flawlessly. The statement that 400 of the implant’s electrodes are operational conflicts somewhat with this quotation, as the BCI only uses 1,024 electrodes.

The remedy at the time to address the problem with the first transplant, Nolan Arbaugh, which saw some electrodes withdraw from their implant sites, was to increase the sensitivity of the electrodes by adjusting the algorithm. Arbaugh has beaten his previous world record for the fastest time to move a cursor with thoughts alone, according to Musk, even “with only roughly 10, 15% of the electrodes working.”

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