The first patient to receive a brain chip transplant from Neuralink made a full recovery and learned to control his computer mouse with the power of his thoughts. In this respect reports Reuters agency referred to the words of Neuralink president Elon Musk.
“The progress is good and the patient appears to have fully recovered without any adverse effects. “The patient can move the mouse on the screen just by thinking,” Musk said at the Spaces event.
Musk also said that Neuralink is now trying to teach a patient to click on a mouse.
Neuralink successfully implanted the chip into the first human patient in January 2024, after receiving approval to conduct human studies in September 2023. The operation used a robot to surgically insert a brain-computer interface implant into the area of the brain that controls the movements of body parts.
According to Reuters, Musk has big goals for Neuralink. The billionaire believes that his company’s implants will help treat autism, depression, schizophrenia and many other diseases in the long term.
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