Wed Sep 20, 2023 – 2:08 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s controversial brain chip company Neuralink is asking for human volunteers to participate in clinical trials, the corporation announced Tuesday.
In a September 19 announcement posted to its website, Neuralink said the company is “happy to announce that we’ve received approval from the reviewing independent institutional review board and our first hospital site to begin recruitment for our first-in-human clinical trial.”
The upcoming study, referred to as PRIME (Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface), is intended to “assess the initial functionality of our BCI [brain computer interface] for enabling people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts.”
Musk’s company, which he founded in 2016 with a group of scientists and engineers, is set to use a robot to “surgically place” the “ultra-fine and flexible threads” of Neuralink’s “fully-implantable, wireless brain-computer interface” into “a region of the brain that controls movement intention.” The study will “evaluate the safety” of both the implant and the surgical robot.
According to the announcement, “[t]he initial goal of our BCI is to grant people the ability to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone.”
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