2024-01-29 23:24:27
The project of Elon Musk’s company, which aims to manufacture and market brain chips, obtained the green light from the American authorities in 2023 to test its brain implants on humans.
A historic first. On his social network X, Elon Musk announced that a human being received a Neuralink brain implant for the first time this Sunday, January 28. The billionaire indicates that this patient, whose identity has not been revealed, “is doing well” and that the first results are “promising”.
Neuralink is one of multiple companies created by Elon Musk. The boss of SpaceX and Tesla discreetly launched it in 2016, hoping to make brain implants.
In practice, Neuralink must design brain–computer interfaces that would allow remote equipment to be controlled simply by thinking.
A green light given in May 2023
The objective would be to restore mobility to paralyzed people by allowing them to interact with their environment or easily manipulate mechanical arms. Implants could also be a solution to neurological disorders, promises Neuralink.
The American Medicines Agency, the FDA, gave its authorization in May 2023 to Neuralink to set up a clinical trial on humans.
Despite the technological and scientific prowess that Neuralink represents, numerous criticisms have been leveled against the project. Because the company is the target of several investigations by American authorities, one of them for animal abuse.
Of at least 23 monkeys used for Neuralink experiments between 2017 and 2020, only 7 survivedaccording to a complaint filed in February 2022.
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