VentureBeat March 20, 2024
One of the several companies founded and led by billionaire Elon Musk is Neuralink, a startup dedicated to developing brain-computer interfaces via implanted devices, ideally providing paralyzed patients a chance to interface with electronics in a more seamless and natural way — and ultimately giving able-bodied patients the ability to control electronic devices by thought.
Now the company is introducing its first human patient, Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old quadriplegic patient who says he was paralyzed eight years ago in a diving accident, and who has a Neuralink chip implanted in his brain and appears to be no worse — actually, much better off — for the ware.
Abraugh went public in a livestream video shared on Wednesday afternoon by...
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