On January 30, Beijing time, Musk announced on the social platform XYesterday the first human received an implant from brain-computer interface company Neuralink, and is now recovering well. Preliminary results show good promise for neuron spike detection.
According to the Daily Economic News on November 13, 2023, thousands of people are currently waiting in line to implant brain implants from Musk's brain-computer interface company (neuralink). The above news was revealed by biographer Ashley Vance at the end of 2023. It is reported that Neuralink expects annual revenue of up to $100 million in five years. Earlier in 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Neuralink for human trials of its device, and by September 2023, the company began recruiting volunteers for its first-in-human trials.
According to Neuralink's reply to a reporter's interview email on October 4, 2023, the company is recruiting patients with diseases including quadriplegia, paraplegia, hearing loss, major amputation, and cataracts. However, Cai Lei, a ALS fighter and former vice president of JD.com, believes that brain-computer interfaces cannot save lives, but can only increase communication, and he said in an interview with reporters on September 23, 2023, "I personally do not have time to participate in the trial at present."
In recent years, crazy brain scientists with Musk as the spiritual leader have decided to manipulate a robot and put a coin-sized implant into the human brain to create a group of super humans with enhanced memory, immortal souls, half-human and half-machine, but this road is not easy to follow.
According to the Daily Economic News on December 28, 2023, the concept of brain-computer interface originated from the idea of Jacques Vidal, a computer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1973, that is, through electrodes placed on the scalp, real-time signals sent by the brain can be detected and translated to control the computer.
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2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the concept of brain-computer interface. This year, whether it is theoretical research or equipment research and development, brain-computer technology has ushered in rapid development: Musk's Neuralink has been approved to carry out clinical trials of implanting devices into the human brain in the United States; The research team at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, used different types of implants to collect electrical signals in the volunteers' brains and interpreted them using different algorithmsBitBrain has developed wearable brain sensing devices that can monitor the ...... of EEG signals with the help of artificial intelligence
The global brain-computer interface market will continue to expand in the coming years, mainly due to the growing demand for assistive technology, advances in neurotechnology and machine learning, integration with virtual and augmented reality systems, and collaboration with AI technology, according to a ** report released in October this year.
Various new developments have also triggered a new round of investment and financing boom. According to the incomplete statistics of the reporter of "Daily Economic News", Neuralink alone will receive two investments in 2023, with a total of 3US$2.3 billion, valuation** to US$5 billion;Precision Neuroscience also raised $41 million in Series B funding.
From the perspective of market prospects, McKinsey also gave an estimate, believing that the potential market size of global brain-computer interface medical applications is expected to reach $40 billion in 2030 and $145 billion in 2040. Among them, the potential application scale of serious medical treatment focusing on central nervous system diseases** is expected to be $15 billion in 2030 and $85 billion in 2040, while the potential application scale of consumer medical care focusing on emotion assessment and intervention is expected to be $25 billion in 2030 and $60 billion in 2040.
In 2024, we can expect several significant advancements in the field of brain-computer interfaces, notably the completion of first-in-human clinical trials by several leading BCI companies. The results of these trials are expected to provide key insights into cutting-edge neuroconnector** and its potential to improve the performance of brain-computer interfaces. These breakthroughs may affect the future development and application direction of brain-computer interfaces. Liu Jia, an assistant professor at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, told the "Daily Economic News" reporter. Jia Liu has been selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "35 Under 35 Technology Innovators" global list, and is a leading expert in the study of the use of flexible nanoelectronic materials to realize non-invasive brain-computer interfaces.
Neuralink's trial plans are particularly ambitious, with the company planning to perform 11 device implantation surgeries in 2024, 27 in 2025, 79 in 2026, and more than 22,000 by 2030. Measuring about five 10-cent coins stacked on top of each other, the Neuralink implant contains 1,024 electrodes and is craniotomy implanted by a specially developed robot, and the collected brain signals are interpreted by a user-side app.
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