MobiHealth News April 2, 2025
Musk says the implant will initially provide blind individuals with low-resolution sight with the potential for superhuman vision in the future.
During a town hall in Wisconsin streamed live on YouTube on Monday, Elon Musk announced his brain-computer interface implant startup Neuralink will perform its first human implant of Blindsight, aimed at restoring vision in individuals who are blind, by the end of 2025.
Musk was asked by an audience member when he envisioned “solving blindness and bringing that to the masses.”
“Neuralink has had in monkeys a working device we call Blindsight,” Musk said. “It has been working well, and the monkeys are healthy for a few years now. “
Blindsight, which received FDA breakthrough device designation in September...
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