After testing on monkeys and pigs, Neuralink may be able to plant its first chip into a human brain in six months, its founder and CEO Elon Musk claimed on Wednesday.
Neuralink, founded in 2016, is working to build an implantable device that can stimulate different areas of the brain allowing those that are paralysed or blind to walk, see, and communicate. The company has only tested its brain-computer interface in animals so far, and is set on trialling the device in humans soon.”We have submitted most of our paperwork to the FDA, and probably in about six months we should be able to have our first neuralink in a human,” Musk said in a company’s show and tell presentation.
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