Billionaire Elon Musk says his company Neuralink has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips into the human brain for the first time.
He said that the first results are promising and the recipient of this computer-like transplant is doing well, The company aims to connect the human brain with computers and says it wants to help fight brain diseases that are difficult to treat. Companies that compete with this have already put a lot of pressure on people,
The BBC says it has approached Neuralink and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for comment, Elon Musk’s company received FDA approval to test the chip on humans in May, a major step after a long wait for approval. This allowed the start of a six-year study in which a robot was used to implant 64 wires, much smaller than a human hair, into the part of the brain that controls “the will to move,” according to Neuralink.
According to the company, these wires allow the device to be powered by a battery that can be charged without plugging in (charged wirelessly) that can store and transmit signals from the brain to an application that determines how a person wants to vibrate.
Through his X social network that used to be twitter, Elon Musk said that « Neuralink’s first product will be called telepathy. Telepathy can be described as the feeling of wanting to communicate with a distant person through thought. He said that Telepathy will help “control your phone or your computer, and through these devices you can control almost any device, just by thinking, The first users are those who have lost the use of their limbs (arms or legs),” he continued.
While Musk is working to raise Neuralink’s profile, he has rivals, some of whom have been working on similar technology for nearly 20 years. An example is the Utah-based Blackrock Neurotech Institute, which first implanted a computer in the human brain in 2004.
