Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Neuralink is intended to allow paralyzed people to control movement by thought.The first human patient received an implant from the brain-chip startup Neuralink, run by CEO Elon Musk, this weekend as is recovering well.
“Initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” Musk said in a post, opens new tab on social media platform X.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had given the company clearance last year to conduct its first trial to test its implant on humans.
The brain chip has 1,000 electrodes and allows people to wirelessly perform computer functions by just thinking of what they’d like to do via a “think-and-click” mechanism. The firm received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to perform human trials this past September.
Last month the company said it was looking for quadriplegics under 40 years old to participate in the human trials. It also said a surgeon would remove part of the test patient’s skull before a 7-foot-tall robot named R1 would take over to implant 64 threads lined with electrodes into their brain.
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