He was standing in a busy operating room in West Virginia, waiting for a surgeon to place Precision Neuroscience's neural implant system onto a conscious patient's brain for the first time.
In seconds, a real-time, high-resolution rendering of the patient's brain activity washed over a screen.
According to Precision, the system had provided the highest resolution picture of human thought ever recorded.
The company's flagship BCI system, the Layer 7 Cortical Interface, is an electrode array resembling a piece of scotch tape.
Since the technology worked as expected, future studies will explore further applications in clinical and behavioral contexts, Mermel said.
Persons:
Craig Mermel, Mermel, Elon, Blackrock Neurotech
Organizations:
Precision, CNBC, Neuralink, Neuroscience, BCI, Blackrock
Locations:
West Virginia, Paradromics