Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink implants chip into brain of first human test subject
Elon Musk announced that his human tech startup Neuralink has inserted a chip implant into the brain of its first human test subject.
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The brain chip — which has 1,000 electrodes — is meant to allow people to wirelessly perform computer functions by just thinking of what they’d like to do via a “think-and-click” mechanism.
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.
