Elon Musk’s Neuralink: Working on Brain-Computer Interfaces

Elon Musk’s technology company Neuralink wants to optimize human abilities via brain-computer interfaces. A completely paralyzed man in Germany is one of the first people with a probe in his brain.

Electrodes – so-called “Utah arrays” – that are implanted in patients.

Jonathan Imhof / Wyss Center Geneva

The brain works with electrical signals. Computers also move electrical charges to process information. So why shouldn’t the brain communicate directly with the computer in the future – without going through a keyboard or the spoken word?

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