The tireless Elon Musk multiplies to attend to his different businesses and announced that his company Neuralink is ready to implant the first chip in a human brain as soon as six months from now.
“Obviously, we want to be extremely careful and make sure that it will work well before we put a device in a human being, but I think we already submit most of our documentation to the FDA. )”, Musk said in a conference broadcast on Twitter that thousands of his fans followed closely.
The objective that Neuralink pursues with these chips is to ensure that disabled people fully recover their mobility or communication skills, although they could also be used to restore sight, even in people who have never had it.
Neuralink is a neurotechnology company and, according to Musk, is ready to implant the first chip in a human brain very soon: “You could have a Neuralink device implanted right now and you wouldn’t even know it. I mean, hypothetically… In fact, I will participate in one of these demonstrations”, said the millionaire.
During the broadcast, a video was shown showing a monkey with the implant, and that he is able to move a cursor on a screen: “He is moving the cursor with his mind. It’s not that I can write, I don’t want to exaggerate,” Musk explained.
According to the Neuralink project, the chip will be the size of a coin and its installation requires extracting a similar volume of brain .
The also owner of Twitter and Tesla says that they have worked very hard and that they are waiting for the approval of the Government to begin with the surgical procedure, since they have already delivered the paperwork to the FDA corresponding.
The chip allows the connection of the brain with a computer via Bluetooth But Musk says that once it’s inserted into the skull, it can also help detect a fever or stroke from the first moment it appears, because electrical impulses from the brain will be seen.
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