Second recipient of Neuralink’s human brain implant uses it for computer-aided design and video games

While Neuralink is working to get approval for general use of its brain-computer interface technology, it now has two human patients who have received the experimental implant. The second patient, [Alex]The transplant was performed in July 2024 and he is He is said to be fine.where he can now play games like Counter Strike 2 without using his old mouth-operated controller. He also designs in Fusion 360 to be 3D printed.

This positive news comes after the first case of infection of the patient ([Noland Arbaugh]) suffered from major problems With his implant, only 10-15% of the electrodes remained functional after receiving the implant in January. The problem was apparently the electrode threads shrinking. Known issue For years already.

We analyzed Neuralink’s claims in 2019, when its founder announced – [Elon Musk] – He had lofty goals for the implant, including reading and writing brains, integrating with artificial intelligence, and more. Since then, Neuralink has been in the news a lot because of the many experimental animals it killed during its testing campaign before embarking on its first human trials.

There also seems to be a persistent problem with the transmission of noisy data from the electrodes, which is much more data than can be transmitted wirelessly. To solve this seemingly impossible problem, Neuralink has now I addressed the audience With her Neuralink Pressure Challenge Someone created an amazing lossless compression algorithm for it.

With so many challenges still to come, it should be clear that it will be many more years before the Neuralink implant is ready for use, but so far it seems to be making life easier for at least two human patients.