The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.

We test 100% of our custom chips to characterize their performance before they get assembled in an implant. Only the best 🏅

We’re happy to announce our $280M Series D round led by @foundersfund. We’re extremely excited about this next chapter at Neuralink. If you’d like to help make the first human experience incredible and work on engineering challenges to restore vision and mobility, come join! neuralink.com/careers/

Join us in developing our next generation robot to reduce surgery time while improving patient safety 🤖

During the final inspection, we capture and stitch images of our arrays and use image detection algorithms to identify defects. Join us in refining our algorithms to distinguish between various types of particles and developing defect-free microfabrication processes 0⃣ #techtuesday

We attach our custom ASICs to our implant PCBA using flip chip bonding process. Here’s a sped up version of that process where we pick up the chip, apply flux, precisely align, and bond to the board.🎯 #techtuesday

We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study! This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represents an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people. Recruitment is not yet open for our clinical trial. We’ll announce more information on this soon!

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For #AI to be successfully used in battlespace, military operators must have confidence in it. But how do you make sure autonomous systems are trustworthy? That’s one question we’re trying to ANSR: darpa.mil/news-events/2022-0…

#ArticlesinPress - "Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation of an Anatomically Detailed Model of the Human Hyperdirect Pathway" Clayton Scott Bingham and Cameron C McIntyre #DBS #Axon #Neuroscience @DukeU ow.ly/mw7k50Iqq9a

Our new COFFEE program aims to filter out interference for wideband phased arrays, amp-ing up capabilities of radar and military comms systems. Interested proposers can pour-over the details and espress-o their ideas at a Proposers Day on 6/17. darpa.mil/news-events/2021-0…

SocialSim performer @UCF recently demonstrated a highly effective, #AI-enabled sarcasm detector for online communications, addressing a major hurdle to improving the accuracy of sentiment analysis. darpa.mil/news-events/2021-0…

A major part of real-world AI has to be solved to make unsupervised, generalized full self-driving work, as the entire road system is designed for biological neural nets with optical imagers

Our new TRIAD AI Exploration program seeks to create a streamlined processing approach by applying machine-learning inspired algorithms directly to a phased array aperture to cut down on processing time and cost. Deadline for submissions is 30 April: go.usa.gov/xHrE9

As #AI becomes more prevalent, defending against “poisoned data” that could lead AIs into incorrect inferences and actions becomes more important. Program manager Bruce Draper is on it. Listen to the latest Voices from DARPA episode. darpa.mil/about-us/podcast

In partnership with InQtel Emerge, DARPA is expanding its successful Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative to aggressively accelerate 150 DARPA-backed technologies out of the lab and into products. darpa.mil/news-events/2021-0…

Robots robots@neuralink.com youtu.be/-gQn-evdsAo

Please consider working at Neuralink! Short-term: solve brain/spine injuries Long-term: human/AI symbiosis Latter will be species-level important Work at either at our Bay Area or Austin locations

In November, DARPA announced a new fellowship program focused specifically on postdoctoral researchers in the field of computer science with grants sized to support each fellow for up to 2 years. Deadline for participation is 14 December. More info at: darpa.mil/news-events/2020-1…