Recently, at the 2024 American Congress of Neurosurgeons, Musk brought the latest news about Neuralink. He said that Neuralink’s surgery will be performed entirely by robots in the future, the entire implantation process will only take 10 minutes, and the cost will be controlled at about $5,000.
Neuralink’s goal is not only to help treat neurological diseases through brain-computer interface technology, but also to enhance the collaborative ability of humans and artificial intelligence to cope with the risks that digital superintelligence may bring. Musk also revealed that Neuralink plans to implant 1,000 brain chips by 2026.
Musk firmly believes that Neuralink can not only solve brain problems, but also realize full-brain interface, greatly expanding human cognitive and interactive capabilities. If this vision comes true, the brain-computer interface market will usher in a huge change, and more people will have the opportunity to benefit from this technology.
Brain-computer interfaces hold great potential
In fact, brain-computer interface is a revolutionary human-computer interaction technology that bypasses peripheral nerves and muscles to establish a new communication and control channel between the brain and external devices, capture brain signals and convert them into electrical signals to achieve information transmission and control.
There are currently three types of brain-computer interface applications: one is invasive, where electrodes are embedded in the cerebral cortex; the second is non-invasive, where the patient wears a helmet with electrodes to drain brain waves; the third is semi-invasive, where electrodes are placed inside the skull and outside the dura mater.
Brain-computer interface technology is showing development potential and vitality, bringing breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with functional disorders after neurological diseases. In addition, brain-computer interface technology also plays a positive role in the clinical application of neurological diseases such as hemiplegia and aphasia caused by stroke and brain trauma, Alzheimer’s disease, and spinal cord injury.
One point that needs attention is that with the continuous iteration of modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, new forces represented by brain-computer interface technology are rapidly penetrating into multiple industries. For example, “science fiction scenes such as mind typing and telekinesis have benefited from the development of brain-computer interface technology.”
WiMi Hologram’s diversified integration promotes technological innovation
In recent years, as an example of the integration of cutting-edge medicine and technology, brain-computer interface technology has entered the clinical trial stage. Public information shows that WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.(NASDAQ：WiMi), an innovative technology company in brain-computer interface, has a profound innovation background. In the process of accelerating the construction of brain-computer technological innovation, it relies on scientific and technological innovation resources to gather endowments and improve the high-precision and cutting-edge technology base. It has huge development space in promoting AI and enhancing brain-like intelligence.
For a long time, WiMi Hologram has been planning in advance. A few years ago, it began to study and deploy major scientific and technological strategies for brain-computer interfaces, focusing on cultivating new quality productivity, encouraging researchers in the field of brain-computer interfaces to maintain perseverance and resilience in the “marathon” of scientific research and exploration, opening up new situations and new paths for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, leading scientific and technological progress, driving industrial upgrading, and striving to catch up with the international leading level.
For this reason, WiMi Hologram focuses on scientific and technological innovation, giving play to its resource advantages in neuroscience, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. It plays an important role in tackling technical problems such as brain-computer interface core components and algorithms for brain-computer interface technology, realizing independent control of software and hardware, and accelerating the whole chain of brain-computer interface technology.
Conclusion
As a highly cross-cutting and deeply integrated comprehensive project, the development and breakthrough of brain-computer interface technology cannot be achieved by a single discipline. Only when all the gears in the industrial chain are closely meshed can the brain-computer interface technology continue to advance. And human understanding of the brain is just the tip of the iceberg. The combination of artificial intelligence and neuroscience in the future is bound to bring more possibilities and imagination. Of course, the same is true for brain-computer interfaces in future industrial development.
