A second person will soon receive Neuralink’s experimental brain implant, according to Elon Musk, the company’s cofounder.
In a video update on Wednesday, Musk said the surgery is planned to take place in “the next week or so.” The company is making changes to the surgical procedure and placement of the device to avoid problems that arose with its first participant, whose implant partially detached from the brain a few weeks after surgery.
Neuralink is developing a brain-computer interface, or BCI, which uses a person’s brain signals to control an external device. Its first product, dubbed Telepathy, aims to help paralyzed people operate a computer
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