Neuralink is just one player in an emerging field that could enhance human functionality or equip paraplegics with robots they could control with their minds.
The secretive, 100-employee company revealed its vast ambitions in a presentation on Tuesday night aimed at recruiting more experts. “We want to have the best talent in the world,” Musk said at the California Academy of Sciences.
Others include Facebook and CTRL-labs, the Amazon Alexa Fund-backed start-up that is trying to take a less invasive approach by focusing on neural signals anywhere on the body. Executives said their first emphasis will be to help patients with severe brain disorders, but the goal of the company is to design a miniature, wireless implant that ordinary individuals would elect to install — “something more like Lasik” eye surgery, said MacDougall — and then control it through an iPhone app. They spoke of communication via thought alone and of restoring motor and sensory functions, such as giving sight to the blind.
Max Hodak, Neuralink’s president, acknowledged that the path to development would be long. He said the company has not yet begun to pursue approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and would require tremendous outside help and academic partnerships. “We are under no illusion that we can do all the scientific research ourselves,” he said.
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