Technology billionaire Elon Musk’s start-up Neuralink has placed a brain implant in a patient for the first time since its founding. “The first person received a Neuralink implant yesterday and is recovering well,” Musk wrote on Monday on the short message service X, formerly Twitter. The first results in terms of neuronal activity are “promising”.
The company, founded in 2016, received permission from the American authorities last year to test implants in the human brain. The implants are about the size of five coins stacked on top of each other.
Direct connection between brain and computer
They are intended to help people with neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but also fundamentally enable a direct connection between the brain and computers and artificial intelligence, thus expanding human capabilities.
“It allows you to control your cell phone or computer, and virtually any device, just by thinking,” Musk wrote on X on Monday. “The first users will be those who can no longer move their limbs.”
Neuralink isn’t the only company working on brain-computer interfaces. In July 2022, Australian-based competitor Synchron announced that it had become the first company to insert a corresponding chip into the brain of a US patient.
Source: Krone
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