The groundbreaking patient, paraplegic man Noland Arbaugh, 29, was seen in a video shared to X using only his mind to move a computer mouse and play a game of chess.
Elon Musk has shared stunning footage of the first person to use the Neuralink brain chip to control a computer cursor and play video games just by thinking.
Arbaugh beamed with happiness throughout the clip - showing off the mouse moving side to side across the online chess board while being filmed by an engineer.
'Progress is good and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with neural effects that we are aware of,' Musk said in a Spaces event on X. In the operation, the 'sewing robot' removes a small chunk of the skull, connects the thread-like electrodes to certain areas of the brain, stitches up the hole and the only visible scar left behind is from the tiny incision.
Noland Arbaugh was left paralyzed from the shoulders down eight years ago, and a fundraiser at the time said that he had been struggling with his 'lack of mobility.' He is pictured right before his injury In a GoFundMe from 11 months after his accident, it was said that Arbaugh had been struggling with his 'lack of mobility.'
This entailed thinking about moving his computer cursor left and right, and 'from there, it just became intuitive for me', he said. He added that one of his favorite aspects of having the implant is that he is now able to play video games, and admitted that as soon as he got the hang of it, he only stopped playing when the implant ran out of charge.
Documents revealed that monkeys had operations on their skulls up to 10 times each before they were put down.
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