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Elon Musk's Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design
Neuralink experienced a mechanical issue with its first human brain-computer interface implant. Its novel design may make it more prone to failure.
Andrew Schwartz, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh who builds brain-computer interfaces, also speculates that Neuralink’s design may have caused the implanted threads to push out of the brain. Despite Neuralink’s setback, the company still managed to live stream a demonstration of its device on March 20, showing Arbaugh using the implant to play chess just by thinking about it. In the blog post, Neuralink says it compensated for the lost threads by modifying the recording algorithm to be more sensitive to neural signals.
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