Elon Musk's Neuralink reports malfunction of the first human brain implant

Neuralink, a neurotechnology company owned by Elon Musk, revealed that the company's brain computer implant (BCI) malfunctioned a few weeks after Norland Arbor, a 29-year-old accident victim, received this device as part of FDA-approved research earlier this year.

This test, named PRIME, is designed to evaluate BCI performance, and Neuralink expects that the day will come when patients with neurological diseases will be able to control external devices such as computers only by thinking.

According to the company, Arbor, who first received this device, had several threads removed from his brain implant a few weeks after surgery.

This flaw reduced the standard bits per second that Neuralink uses to measure the speed and accuracy of devices. The company has taken corrective measures such as changes in recording algorithms, etc., and it is said that BPS has been improved as a result.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and SpaceX (SPACE), praised Arbor in March after an Arizona native who was paralyzed from the shoulder down due to a 2016 driving accident using a device for the first time and then posted it on his X platform.