{"id":195300,"date":"2024-08-27T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/thought-to-text-chip-smaller-than-neuralink-achieves-91-accuracy"},"modified":"2024-08-27T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T23:23:45","slug":"thought-to-text-chip-smaller-than-neuralink-achieves-91-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/thought-to-text-chip-smaller-than-neuralink-achieves-91-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Thought-to-text chip smaller than Neuralink achieves 91% accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thought-to-text-chip-smaller-than-neuralink-achieves-91-accuracy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brain-machine interface race is on. While Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink has garnered most of the headlines in this field, a new small and thin chip out of Switzerland makes it look downright clunky by comparison. It also works impressively well.<\/p>\n<p>The chip has been developed by researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and represents a leap forward in the sizzling space of brain-machine-interfaces (BMIs) \u2013 devices that are able to read activity in the brain and translate it into real-world output such as text on a screen. That\u2019s because this particular device \u2013 known as a miniaturized brain-machine interface (MiBMI) \u2013 is extremely small, consisting of two thin chips measuring just 8 mm<sup>2<\/sup> total. By comparison, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/computers\/neuralink-progress-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink device<\/a> clocks in at comparatively gargantuan size of about 23 \u00d7 8 mm (about 0.3 x .9 in).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the EPFL chipset uses very little power, is reported to be minimally invasive, and consists of a fully integrated system that processes data in real time. That\u2019s different from Neuralink, which requires the insertion of 64 electrodes into the brain and carries out its processing via an app located on a device outside of the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain-machine interface race is on. While Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink has garnered most of the headlines in this field, a new small and thin chip out of Switzerland makes it look downright clunky by comparison. It also works impressively well. The chip has been developed by researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195300","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}