Musk: ‘Patient With Chip Implant Moving Mouse With Thoughts’

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News

FREMONT, USA (Worthy News) – Billionaire Elon Musk says the first human patient implanted with a brain chip from his startup Neuralink makes a “full recovery” and can control the computer mouse around the screen “just by thinking.”

Progress is good, Musk added, “and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of.”

The eccentric billionaire said Neuralink was now trying to get as “many mouse button clicks” as possible from the patient.

His company put the chip on its first human patient last month after receiving approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to implant brain chips into humans in September and to recruit for the first-in-human clinical trial.

The device works by recording activity from electrodes placed next to individual brain cells, making it possible to read out the person’s intended movement and thoughts, experts say.

Musk explained that it could enable someone who was “tetraplegic or quadriplegic to control a computer, or mouse, or their phone, or really any device … just by thinking.”

However, Neuralink, which was valued at about $5 billion last year, has faced repeated calls for scrutiny regarding its safety protocols.

Musk has significant ambitions for Neuralink, saying it would facilitate speedy surgical insertions of its chip devices to treat conditions like obesity, autism, depression, and schizophrenia.

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