The First Human Has Gotten a Neuralink Implant

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Neuralink has officially implanted its first brain chip into an actual human. The person is recovering well and the device is detecting neuron spiking. Those who suffer from ALS or spinal cord injury are the people who should apply for device.

The Neuralink mission is to create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow.

If you’ve been living with quadriplegia from a spinal cord injury (SCI) or with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), you may qualify for the PRIME Study.

Watch this video and visit our website to learn more and to submit your application:
https://neuralink.com/patient-registry/

The PRIME Study (short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface) – a groundbreaking investigational medical device trial for our fully-implantable, wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) – aims to evaluate the safety of our implant and surgical robot, and assess the initial functionality of our BCI for enabling people with quadriplegia to control external devices with their thoughts.

This study involves placing a small, cosmetically invisible implant in a part of the brain that plans movements. The device is designed to interpret a person’s neural activity, so they can operate a computer or smartphone by simply intending to move – no wires or physical movement are required.

This research will be the first of its kind to be performed in people and may help us find safer, more effective ways to implant and use our BCI to potentially restore and enhance computer control and other capabilities.

The PRIME Study – a groundbreaking investigational medical device trial for our fully-implantable, wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) – aims to evaluate the safety of our implant and surgical robot, and assess the initial functionality of our BCI for enabling people with quadriplegia to control external devices with their thoughts.

This study involves placing a small, cosmetically invisible implant in a part of the brain that plans movements. The device is designed to interpret a person’s neural activity, so they can operate a computer or smartphone by simply intending to move – no wires or physical movement are required.

This research will be the first of its kind to be performed in people and may help us find safer, more effective ways to implant and use our BCI to potentially restore and enhance computer control and other capabilities.

If you have limited or no ability to use both hands due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) you may qualify.

7 thoughts on “The First Human Has Gotten a Neuralink Implant”

  1. Not to be outdone, China throws its hat into the ring:

    “To rival this new step in technology, China set a timeline to develop its own “brain-computer interface” on Monday with products arriving as early as 2025.

    China lists a “brain-computer interface” as one of its “innovative iconic products,” according to a translated press release on Monday. In the next several years, the country aims to “make breakthroughs in key technologies and core devices such as brain-computer fusion, brain-like chips, and brain-computing neural models,” said China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.”

    See:

    https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-neuralink-china-brain-computer-chip-1851208928

  2. This does sound like a significant improvement over the “Utah array” for people with extreme disabilities though anyone thinking it is a step towards healthy people becoming cyborgs to out compete AI is vastly underestimating the risks of breaching the tissue protecting the brain from the outside world. The use of the term “sterile” to describe operating rooms will always be a relative term, not an absolute one. There is a reason brain surgery is not something done casually. Nobody says “Oh, I need brain surgery? Good that will give me a good story to talk about at that family wedding coming up later in the year.” When you need your skull punctured you get your will updated.

    • On the contrary, I think by now the dangers of heavy metals have been beaten to death, which is why everybody who does brain implants now avoids them like the plague.

      They are still using metallic components, though. I’d like to see them transition to the use of optogenetics. But that’s going to be difficult to clear with regulators, given the need for localized genetic engineering using viral vectors.

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