Human with Neuralink brain chip able to control mouse via thoughts: Elon Musk

Elon Musk-owned Neuralink recently began recruiting humans to test its brain chip implant. Musk has now recently that the first human implanted with a brain chip seems to have fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using thoughts. Also Read: Neuralink Patient Writes Using Only Her Thoughts, Elon Musk Confirmed

“Progress is good, and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with neural effects that we are aware of. The patient is able to move a mouse around the screen by just thinking,” Musk said in a Spaces event on X.

Musk mentioned that Neuralink is now attempting to get as many mouse button clicks as possible from the patient. This will really put the Neuralink brain chip to the test.

Last year in September, Neuralink received approval for human trial recruitment. Following this, the company successfully implanted a chip into the first human patient last month.

Earlier, he revealed the aim of this brain implant process. He said, “Initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs. Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal.”

Musk sometime back confirmed that Neuralink’s first product, called Telepathy, would bring control of a phone or computer just by thinking. In November last year, the brain-computer interface company raised an additional $43 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The filing showed that the company raised its previous tranche, led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, from $280 million to $323 million in early August.

— Written with inputs from IANS