The first human patient, Noland Arbaugh, says the chip ‘completely changed how I live,’ despite a ‘thread retraction’ issue that will likely need to be addressed before a second trial begins.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is signaling it’s ready to implant its brain chip in a second human patient after more than three months of tests with Noland Arbaugh, the first human subject.
On Thursday, Musk tweeted: “Neuralink is accepting applications for the second participant. This is our Telepathy cybernetic brain implant that allows you to control your phone and computer just by thinking. » His post retweets a Neuralink video intended to recruit eligible users for the second trial; it offers a glimpse of how the brain chip was surgically implanted in Arbaugh in January.
“It completely changed how I live,” Arbaugh says in the video, which shows how the technology has enabled him to move the cursor on his laptop remotely.
Neuralink first called for human patients to test the brain chip in September, so the company may already have a database of eligible candidates.
