原文标题：
Elon Musk announces Neuralink’s first human implant of Blindsight coming this
year
原文连结：https://tinyurl.com/ncrz2edf
https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/elon-musk-announces-neuralink-s-first-
human-implant-blindsight-coming-year
发布时间：April 02, 2025 04:47 pm
记者署名：By Jessica Hagen
原文内容：
During a town hall in Wisconsin streamed live on YouTube on Monday, Elon Musk
announced that his brain-computer interface implant startup Neuralink will
perform its first human implant of Blindsight, aimed at restoring vision in
individuals who are blind, by the end of 2025.
Musk was asked by an audience member when he envisioned "solving blindness and
bringing that to the masses."
"Neuralink has had in monkeys a working device we call Blindsight," Musk said.
"It has been working well, and the monkeys are healthy for a few years now. "
Blindsight, which received FDA breakthrough device designation in September of
last year, is an implant that aims to restore vision in individuals who are
blind.
Blindsight implants a microelectrode array into the visual cortex of a person'
s brain. The array then activates neurons, which then provide the individual
with a visual image.
"We're hoping later this year to do our first device implant for humans,
enabling someone who is completely blind to see," Musk said.
He said he wanted to set expectations appropriately and explained that the
individual's vision would be low-resolution initially, "like Atari graphics."
"It will start off very low-res, but then, overtime, I think, eventually the
implant would enable vision that is like superhuman. So, that'll be pretty
cool," Musk said.
THE LARGER TREND
Last year, Musk wrote on X that Blindsight will enable even those who have
lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see as long as their visual cortex is
intact. It will even allow those blind from birth to see for the first time,
he said.
The visual cortex is the part of one's brain that receives and processes
visual information from the retinas.
"Eventually, it has the potential [to] be better than natural vision and
enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like [
Star Trek's character] Geordi La Forge," Musk wrote.
Neuralink filed applications in early March with the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO) to trademark the terms "Telepathy," "Blindsight" and "
Telekinesis."
The applications pertain to Blindsight as well as Neuralink's first product,
Telepathy, a brain-computer interface that enables users to control devices
with their thoughts, and Telekinesis, a term Musk has used interchangeably
with Telepathy that relates to controlling devices using one's mind.
心得/评论：
埃隆·马斯克宣布Neuralink将于今年进行首个人类Blindsight植入
在周一于威斯康辛州举行并通过YouTube直播的市民大会上，埃隆·马斯克宣布，他的脑
机接口植入公司Neuralink将在2025年底前进行首次人类Blindsight植入，该技术旨在为
盲人恢复视力。
一位观众问马斯克，他何时设想“解决失明问题并将其推广到大众”。
马斯克说：“Neuralink已经在猴子身上测试了一个名为Blindsight的设备，效果很好，
这些猴子几年来都很健康。”
Blindsight于去年9月获得美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的突破性设备认证，是一种旨
在为盲人恢复视力的植入物。
Blindsight通过将微电极阵列植入人的视觉皮层来实现功能。该阵列会激活神经元，进而
为个体提供视觉图像。
马斯克说：“我们希望在今年晚些时候进行首个人类设备植入，让完全失明的人能够看到
。”
他表示希望适当设定预期，并解释说，最初个体的视力将是低分辨率的，“就像雅达利（
Atari）的图形”。
马斯克说：“起初分辨率会很低，但随着时间推移，我认为最终植入物将实现超乎常人的
视力，这将非常酷。”
更大趋势
去年，马斯克在X上写道，Blindsight将使那些双眼和视神经都丧失但视觉皮层完好的人
也能看见。他说，即使是天生失明的人也能首次获得视力。
视觉皮层是大脑中接收和处理来自视网膜的视觉信息的部分。
马斯克写道：“最终，它有潜力超越自然视力，让你能看到红外线、紫外线甚至雷达波长
，就像《星际迷航》中的角色乔迪·拉·佛吉（Geordi La Forge）一样。”
Neuralink于今年3月初向美国专利商标局（USPTO）提交了“Telepathy”、“Blindsight
”和“Telekinesis”三个术语的商标申请。
这些申请涉及Blindsight以及Neuralink的首个产品Telepathy（一种让用户通过思想控制
设备的脑机接口）和Telekinesis（马斯克曾与Telepathy互换使用的术语，涉及用意识控
制设备）。