SAN FRANCISCO – Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp has performed its first brain implant on a human — a major step toward the billionaire’s goal of one day enabling people to control computers with their minds. And for the first time Musk has given the implant device a name.
Here is all you need to know about Neuralink and the company’s first human trial:
What is Neuralink?
Neuralink is a startup founded by Elon Musk in 2017. It is trying to build a brain-computer interface that would help people with traumatic injuries operate phones and personal computers (PCs) using only their thoughts. To do that, it is working on implanting electrodes into peoples’ brains.
Sounds scary. Has that been done before?
Yes. Neuralink builds on decades of technology aimed at implanting electrodes in human brains to interpret signals and treat conditions such as paralysis, epilepsy and…
