2. Overview of
NEURALINK
Neuralink is Elon Musk’s company making brain chips to connect your
brain to computers. First human implant happened in 2024. Goal: help
people with brain issues and maybe boost human abilities.
3. Help people with neural
issues and enable
thought-controlled
devices
Long-term: human-AI
Merge humans with
AI to stay relevant
and enhance our
capabilities.
Build brain-computer
interfaces to treat
brain diseases and
eventually boost
human potential.
Mission Vision Goals
Mission &VISION
4. Brain Computer
INTERFACE
A BCI is a system that allows direct communication between the brain and an external
device.
As you can see, the
Neuralink chip will
be planted in the
front part of the
skull over the brain
(green)
5. The Main People behind Neuralink are Musk, Birchall and Hodak. Musk was the founder and the financial
supporter. Hodak and Musk worked on their first implant together and build the first structure. And Birchall is
just the manager. He looks if the things that they do are legal and allowed.
TheTEAM
Elon Musk Jared Birchall Max Hodak
6. The
TECH
1: Protective Casing: Just medical Plastic nothing else.
2:Signal Processing Unit: Custom Chip that converts the
electrodes.
3:Battery System: Wireless Charging through a charging cable
4:Circuit Board: The processor, memory and power manager.
5:BT: Just Bluetooth
The Machine
implanting BCI
8. Animal
TESTING
The pigs were
monitored closely with
neuralink, although
some pigs learned to
walk. Same problems
as with the monkeys.
Everybody knows the clip
about the monkey
controlling a game with
its thoughts. But other
Experiments weren’t
going as well. Some
Monkeys died or had
some symptons.
10. Challenges
Criticisms
Because of its futuristic technology, the
product Neuralink is very instable and pricy.
Here are some main challenges:
• Long Term Safety
• Data Privacy
• Ethical maybe too futuristic
• Make it affordable
• What if getting hacked?
• Mind control fears
• Moneyyyyyyyyyyy
• Subscription?bcs of Monopol
• Can there be any criticism against
Musk if everyone uses this chip?
11. The
IMPLANT
Battery Capacity: 5-10 mAh (24h)
Power:1-2 Watt
Elektrodes:1024 Channels
Max. Range BT: 10m
Sampling rate: 20kHz per Channel
The main data processing runs externally, so no large hardware is required.
