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Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm
Elon Musk’s brain implant company is launching a new study to test whether its wireless device can control a robotic arm.
“We’re excited to announce the approval and launch of a new feasibility trial to extend BCI control using the N1 implant to an investigational assistive robotic arm,” Neuralink said in a post on Musk’s social media platform X. “We congratulate Neuralink on receiving approval for their feasibility trial,” says Marcus Gerhardt, CEO and co-founder Blackrock Neurotech, the company that manufactures the Utah array, the brain implant used in previous studies of mind-controlled robotic limbs. Brian Dekleva, a research scientist at the Rehab Neural Engineering Labs at the University of Pittsburgh, says the biggest challenge in achieving BCI control of an assistive robotic arm is the need for calibration.
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