How Close Are We To Wireless Brain Implants in Humans?

The Bigger Picture · The Daily Digest · 11 Sept 2020 · 15 mins listen

Elon Musk recently showed off how his start-up Neuralink has successfully implanted chips into the brain of several pigs, with the hopes that these brain implants could someday be used in humans to cure diseases related to our nervous system. But how far off into the future is this possibility?

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Lim Sue Ann

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Lim Sue Ann,Sharmilla Ganesan & Dashran Yohan

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