Elon Musk reported on X about the first-ever Neuralink patient who received a brain implant last January. Today he can operate a computer mouse simply by thinking and move it around a screen at will.
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A few weeks after the first implant in a volunteer's brain ruptured, Elon Musk announced his news during an intervention in a Space on X (formerly Twitter): “He's fine. The patient appears to have fully recovered with no known side effects. He is now able to control a computer mouse by simply moving it around a screen by thinking. We now try to get as many keystrokes as possible through our thoughts. We are currently working on that. And then we would soon like to have more than just two buttons. We are trying to make progress on this point, but overall everything is going very well.
This implant, called telepathy, should theoretically make it possible to control your phone or computer, and therefore almost any other device, simply by thinking. Neuralink therefore wants to help people who no longer have the use of their limbs. The company can therefore now experiment with its medical experimental protocol, which includes its fully implantable and wireless brain-computer interface. The implant must transmit brain signals to an application that decodes them and converts them into movement.
Neuralink is the first player to implant its chip directly into the brain, and its initial results are being watched with great attention by the scientific world. In the longer term, this technology could also help in the treatment of Parkinson's or epilepsy. As a reminder, Neuralink has already tested its technology on animals.