Neuralink has a second successful human transplant, as shared by owner Elon Musk, though little details have been shared about this surgery.
There was quite a bit of fanfare when Neuralink showed off its brain-computer interface via the first successful transplant, even if there was a slight scare two months down the line. Since then though, it looks like the company has a second successful human transplant, though this second person was not identified, not did they get much fanfare.
Reuters reports that Elon Musk, who owns Neuralink, shared the existence of this second successful human transplant, via an eight-hour podcast. Not much else has been shared about this person, beyond the fact that they also had suffered a spinal cord injury. Musk did not share when the surgery for this second person was done either, but says that he expects the company to provide the implant to eight more patents this year as part of its clinical trials.
Addressing the issue with the first transplant, Nolan Arbaugh, which saw some of the electrodes retracting from where they were implanted, the workaround at the time was to improve the electrodes' sensitivity with algorithm tweaks. Musk says that even 'with only roughly 10, 15% of the electrodes working', Arbaugh has improved on his previous world record for the speed at which he can control a cursor with thoughts alone.
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