Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a brain-chip startup, on Wednesday live-streamed a video on X (formerly Twitter) where a paralysed patient can be seen playing online chess using his mind only.
A brain-computer interface technology was implanted in Noland Arbaugh, 29, who was paralysed below his shoulder after a driving accident, this January, as per Sky News.
In a nine-minute long video, the first ever user of the Neuralink device appears to control the cursor and move it across the screen, playing chess and turning off laptop music using only his thoughts.
Musk, last month, said that Arbaugh received an implant from a company and can control a mouse using his thoughts.
Musk had earlier said that the aim of this brain chip is to empower people with disabilities like the late Stephen Hawking to ‘communicate faster than an auctioneer.’
He claimed that it will have the potential to treat autism, schizophrenia, obesity and depression.
The patient called the surgery ‘super easy’ and said, “I literally was released from the hospital a day later. I have no cognitive impairments.”
He also said in a video stream that he had ‘given up playing’ but Neuralink “gave me the ability to do that again and I played for eight hours that day.
Elon Musk and a group of scientists founded ‘Neuralink’ in 2016.
