What is Neuralink? IS it useful or not?

Neuralink, founded by Elon musk in 2016, is a neurotechnology company that aims to develop brain-machine interface (BMI). Their motive is to merge human brain with Artificial intelligence that treat neurological disorders and increase human potential, here is detailed explanation about Neuralink:

Scroll down to get download button

1. Core technology:

 Its main technology is a device called “Link”. This small device that connect directly to brain with ultra-thin electrodes. It includes:

• Neuralink’s device use biocompatible neural thread that implant into human brain, these threads are thinner than human hair. The flexibility of this thread is a remarkable innovation over other electrodes which also can cause long term inflammation and damage.
• Neuralink also use robots to implant these threads that avoid blood vessels to minimize trauma. Robots enhance the accuracy than human and reduce risks of surgery.
• This device use Bluetooth to communicate wirelessly to external devices. Its advantages is real time data transmission that helps in medical treatment.

2. Potential Applications:

Neuralink developed several applications for its technology that explain below:

• Neuralink aim to diagnose many diseases like, Parkinson, epilepsy and also depression. 
• It also aim to paralyzed person to control devices like smartphones or robots by using their thoughts.
• They also aim to treat blindness and hearing loss.

3. Progress:

In 2020, Neuralink show an experiment on a pig named Gertrude with a real-time neural signal recoding. Later in 2022, tested on monkey, allowing them to control device using brain signals.

4. Competitors:

Neuralink operates in a competitive space with other its competitors like

• Synchron: They focused on non-invasive brain, they already test it on humans.
• Kernel: They also focused on non-invasive signals for health.
• Blackrock Neurotech: They develop BMIs.

5. Challenges:

They also face many hurdles like;

• They achieve a high resolution interface that capable of reading and writing billions of neuron that is also a very hard challegence.
• They are not approved from FDA that requires full safety trials. The name “mind control” that they work leads to hacking and public personal things across web.

6. Overall:

Neuralink’s work is remarkable and their technology is very advance that had potential to revolution in medical and human cognition. The company make progress but still had to work very hard to prove their promises that require a long time. But if they successes they change the map of world that bring some benefits but also cause trouble.