{"id":280416,"date":"2024-01-31T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=280416"},"modified":"2024-02-01T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T05:33:33","slug":"neuralink-human-brain-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/neuralink-human-brain-implant\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink Human Brain Implant For the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on Neuralink Human Brain Implant\u00a0in human has been created based on the article <strong>&#8220;Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says<\/strong>&#8221; published in &#8220;<strong>The Business Standard<\/strong>&#8221; on 31 January 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in the news?<\/h2>\n<p>The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink on Sunday and is recovering well. This first product from <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Neuralink is called Telepathy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2>About Neuralink Human Brain Implant &#8211; Telepathy<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_280455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280455\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-280455\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Neuralink.png?resize=595%2C496&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Neuralink\" width=\"595\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Neuralink.png?w=595&amp;ssl=1 595w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Neuralink.png?resize=300%2C250&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-280455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Times of India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>How does it function?<\/h2>\n<p>1. <strong>Implantation<\/strong>&#8211; A small chip called &#8220;link&#8221; is surgically inserted into a specific area of brain. &#8220;Link&#8221; has many wires which are even thinner than hair.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Neurological signal detection<\/strong>&#8211; The electrodes in the wires detect electrical signals in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Interpretation<\/strong>&#8211; These signals are used by the device for interpretation of their meaning. <strong>For ex-<\/strong> Ascertaining the type of movement represented by a particular sensory input.<\/p>\n<p>4.<strong> Communication<\/strong>&#8211; Device then transmits this data to an external computer. This is achieved without any physical connections, using <strong>advanced wireless technology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>Application-<\/strong> The data is then processed by the external devices like computers for performing specific function which has been decoded like <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">speech<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">movement of artificial limbs<\/span> etc.<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>Feedback-<\/strong> The system can provide <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">sensory feedback to the brain device<\/span>, closing the loop of communication. The brain can thus not only be used to control a device but also be used to receive inputs from that device like <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">touch sensations from a robotic hand<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note <\/strong>&#8211; <strong>Neurons<\/strong>\u00a0are nerve cells that use electricity and chemicals to send signals from your brain to the rest of your body to help it move, breathe, talk and eat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Neuralink<\/strong>-It was founded in 2016 by <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Elon Musk<\/span>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Some other companies operating in brain implant field <\/span>&#8211; <strong>BlackRock Microsystems, Kernel, Medtronic and Synchron.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus &#8211; Science &amp; Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on Neuralink Human Brain Implant\u00a0in human has been created based on the article &#8220;Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says&#8221; published in &#8220;The Business Standard&#8221; on 31 January 2024. Why in the news? The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink on Sunday and is recovering well.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/neuralink-human-brain-implant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neuralink Human Brain Implant For the First Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-280416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}