Elon Musk reveals first human has had a BRAIN implant from Neuralink’s new ‘Telepathy’ product
Elon Musk has revealed a patient has become the first human to have a Neuralink microchip implanted into their brain.
The billionaire said on Monday night his startup Neuralink had successfully performed a craniectomy to attach the device in the unnamed person on Sunday.
He announced the product – called ‘Telepathy’ – and he hopes it will allow users with disabilities like Stephen Hawking to ‘communicate faster than an auctioneer’.
Musk said it will ‘enable control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking’.
It comes less than a year after Neuralink got Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to operate on humans, a critical milestone for the startup.
The company aims to implant microchips into the brains of paralyzed people, and allow them to move their bodies using their thoughts.