The first human patient to receive Neuralink’s brain chip is ‘recovering well,’ Musk says.
Elon Musk says his startup Neuralink has successfully inserted the company’s brain implant into a human patient for the first time.
On Monday, Musk announced the news on Twitter/X, saying the unnamed patient is “recovering well,” after receiving the implant the day before.
“Initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” he added in the tweet. Musk didn’t elaborate, but Neuralink has been designing the technology so that the implant can read the human user’s brain signals in the form of neural activity spikes.
The goal is to then use those brain signals and translate them into remote commands for today’s consumer devices, like moving a computer cursor.
