Abstract: Systems and methods that use computer vision techniques in connection with robotic surgery are discussed. A robotic surgery system may include an implantable device engagement sub-system, a targeting sub-system, and/or an insertion verification sub-system. The system may use computer vision techniques to facilitate implanting a micro-manufactured bio-compatible electrode device in biological tissue (e.g., neurological tissue such as the brain) using robotic assemblies. The system can attach, via robotic manipulation, the electrode to an engagement element of an insertion needle.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 12, 2019
Publication date:
March 19, 2020
Applicant:
Neuralink Corp.
Inventors:
Ian M. O'Hara, Vikash Gilja, Kenny Sharma, Timothy L. Hanson, Timothy J. Gardner
Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate to chips used to receive and process neurological events in brain matter as captured by electrodes. Such chips may include an array of amplifiers and electrodes to receive neurological voltage signals, the chip including a config circuitry in communication with the array of amplifiers and a controller, the config circuitry configured to receive program instructions and instruct the amplifiers of a voltage threshold and instruct the controller to pass on signals from only specific rows and columns of amplifiers, the controller in communication with the array of amplifiers, the controller configured to packetize the neurological voltage signals into data packets.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 14, 2019
Publication date:
September 19, 2019
Applicant:
Neuralink Corp.
Inventors:
Dongjin Seo, Paul A. Merolla, Manuel Alejandro Monge Osorio