The competitors to Elon Musk’s Neuralink in the race to link human and machine
Earlier this month, Elon Musk took the stage in a science museum in San Francisco and sketched out a bold vision of connecting a human brain to a computer.
The presentation was one of the first public unveilings of the technology behind his brain-machine interface (BMI) company Neuralink, which is trying to use robotically implanted super thin flexible “threads” in the brain to allow individuals to control computers and smartphones with their mind. An unpublished non-peer reviewed white paper credited to Musk and Neuralink lays out more of the technical details behind the technology.
Neuralink has starting initial testing in animal subjects and hopes to kick off human trials in paralyzed patients as soon as next year. Ultimately the goal, according to Musk, is allow “symbiosis with artificial intelligence” mitigating what he has previously described as an existential threat to humanity.
The 100-person startup has raised $158 million from investors in pursuit of that goal (much of it coming from Musk himself) but it’s far from the only player in the emerging BMI space. Here’s an overview of some of the other companies vying to meld human cognition and machines.
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