The 29-year-old patient, who is paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, was seen on Wednesday in a live stream on Musk’s social media platform X playing online chess on his laptop and moving the mouse cursor with his thoughts.
“The surgery was super easy,” the patient said in the video. He was discharged from the hospital one day after the implantation and has no cognitive impairment. “I don’t want people to think that this is the end of the journey, there is still a lot to do, but it has already changed my life,” he said, referring to some problems with the new technology. In February, Musk announced that the surgery was successful and the patient was able to move a mouse across the screen just by thinking.
“Still very early stage”
What Neuralink has shown is not a “breakthrough,” said Kip Ludwig, former program director for neurotechnology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “We are still in the very early stages post-implantation, and both Neuralink and subjects still have a lot to learn to maximize the amount of information available for control,” he added. Nevertheless, it is a good starting point and a positive development for patients that they can communicate with a computer in a way that was not possible for them before the implantation.
Video: In the video, the Neuralink patient can be seen playing chess
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Less than a month before the brain implants were approved for testing in humans, inspectors from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found problems with Neuralink’s records and quality controls of animal experiments. Neuralink did not respond to questions about the FDA inspection at the time.
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