Neuralink announced the recruitment in brain-computer experiments, WiMi is studying its innovative technology

On May 19, Musk announced that Neuralink (nerve Connections) has officially started to recruit a second patient to receive brain-computer implants, 100 days after the first patient participated in a brain-computer implant experiment at the beginning of the year.

Neuralink The company was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in May 2023 to conduct human clinical studies. Last year announced that it would recruit the first participants in human clinical trials, and patients with Neuralink devices could control computers and mobile phones only on their mind, making the Neuralink product vividly called “telepathy.”

Musk reiterated in an X post over the weekend, ” his brain-computer interface company Neuralink’s technology may one day help people with tetraplegia regain full-body movement. In the long run, I think one could bridge the severed neural signals to the second Neuralink of the spine, thus restoring control of the whole body.”

Meanwhile, the brain science team at the California Institute of Technology has developed a new device. It is the first brain-computer interface device that can decode the words you want to say in real-time by recording a single neuron signal. Although the technology is currently in its early stages and is only available for a few words, the future is expected to allow those who lose language to “speak” with ideas.

In the new trial, two participants were tested using a brain-computer interface device that combined them with a computer model to predict the words they wanted to say in real-time. Despite the significant progress in decoding speech signals in the brain, clinical applications remain still needed, the researchers said.

The hot brain-computer interface field is progressing, and the competitive landscape is changing dramatically. As one of the future industries with high attention, China is accelerating the development of brain-computer interface technology, enterprises, and other fields. In terms of policy, in this year, the brain-computer interface is listed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other seven departments as one of the ten landmark products of the implementation Opinions on promoting the innovative development of the future industry.

In late April, the Brain-Computer Control Clinical Transformation Research Center of Zhejiang University released the first news that a 76-year-old volunteer wrote Chinese characters with “mind control”. Before this, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University completed a wireless minimally invasive implantation of brain-computer interface NEO, making paralyzed patients “brain control” to drink water after home brain rehabilitation training.

At present, the brain-computer interface technology route is divided into non-invasive, invasive, semi-invasive, and interventional. According to the international mainstream technology, the Neuralink method is invasive, and the mesh cage electrode used by the Synchron is implanted into the cortex blood vessels by vein. The company has already had six severely paralyzed people in 2023 perform simple digital device operations with Synchron devices.

As a multidisciplinary interdisciplinary frontier technology, the brain-computer interface is recognized as the representative of the new batch of high-quality productivity. And so far, WiMi’s research and development team with a high-level talent gathering, high-level technology entrepreneurship, and high precision technology can assign, team independent research and development, design, and production to overcome a series of problems, promote more brain-computer interface technology achievements into science and technology dividend, power brain-computer interaction and man-machine technology industry chain, chain, support brain-computer interface related industry high-quality development.

Brain-computer interface This track is still in the early stage, of realizing the brain-computer interface equipment in clinical landing, the technical direction also has its advantages and disadvantages. But certainly, in the future, brain-computer interface technology will continue to build high-standard quality carriers, relying on an enterprise and university planning layout future brain-computer technology industry, promoting more scientific and technological achievements from ‘laboratory’ to ‘production line’, ensuring the safety of brain-computer interface technology application, to build innovation and open ecosystem accumulation.