{"id":112143,"date":"2020-08-29T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/elon-musk-reveals-new-details-of-neuralink"},"modified":"2020-08-29T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T22:22:18","slug":"elon-musk-reveals-new-details-of-neuralink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/elon-musk-reveals-new-details-of-neuralink","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk reveals new details of Neuralink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-reveals-new-details-of-neuralink.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this video, Elon Musk demonstrates a prototype brain\u2013computer interface chip \u2013 implanted in a pig \u2013 that his company, Neuralink, has been working on. The device could one day be used by humans to augment their abilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2016, the Neuralink Corporation remained highly secretive about its work until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/21.htm\" target=\"_blank\">July 2019<\/a>, when Musk presented his concept at the California Academy of Sciences. It emerged that he planned to create brain\u2013machine interfaces (BMIs) not only for diseased or injured patients, but also healthy individuals who might wish to enhance themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, in a livestream event on YouTube, Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized chip in her brain. Simpler and smaller than the original revealed last year, the read\/write link device can nevertheless pack 1,024 channels with megabit wireless data rate and all-day battery life. This latest prototype \u2013 version 0.9 \u2013 has now been approved as an FDA breakthrough device, allowing it to be used in limited human trials under the US federal guidelines for testing medical devices. The chip is removable, Musk explained, as he showed another pig called Dorothy, who no longer had the implant and was healthy, happy and indistinguishable from a normal pig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, Elon Musk demonstrates a prototype brain\u2013computer interface chip \u2013 implanted in a pig \u2013 that his company, Neuralink, has been working on. The device could one day be used by humans to augment their abilities. Founded in 2016, the Neuralink Corporation remained highly secretive about its work until July 2019, when Musk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,418,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}