Phantom's implantable sensor sits under the skin near an amputation site, letting people with paralysis or ALS regain speech and movement without brain surgery. A general surgeon can place it in an outpatient setting, making it safer and more accessible than Neuralink-style brain implants.
The vast majority of people with physical disabilities don't have to have a brain implant in order to regain their lost function through human-machine interfacing. So ultimately we came up with this implantable sensor system for the limbs that could do the same thing as a brain-computer interface, but in the setting of outpatient surgery, very straightforward, you don't need a specialized surgeon.
Phantom fits into the shoving electrodes into your body field. Companies like Neuralink and Onward have been building implants for the brain and spine. This technology can help people suffering from paralysis or ALS speak, use computers, and even walk again. But instead of putting a chip in someone's brain, Phantom has built a device that gets implanted right next to the person's amputation site.
So this is what would go under somebody's arm, right under the skin.
