Noland Arbaugh, who is paralysed below the shoulders, received a chip implant in January
Noland Arbaugh, who is paralysed below the shoulders, received a chip implant in January.
Elon Musk's brain-chip company Neuralink has shown its first patient moving a cursor on a computer using an implanted device.
In a nine-minute livestream on X, formerly Twitter, Noland Arbaugh uses the cursor to play chess online.
Mr Arbaugh was paralysed below the shoulders after a diving accident and received the chip implant in January.
Mr Arbaugh also said that he had used the brain implant to play the video game Civilization VI. Neuralink gave him "The ability to do that again and played for eight hours straight", he said.
The company has also run trials in pigs and claimed that monkeys can play a basic version of the video game Pong.Neuralink was given permission to test the chip on humans by the Food and Drug Administration in May 2023.Neuralink is one of a growing number of companies and university departments attempting to refine and ultimately commercialise this technology.
The human brain is home to around 86 billion neurons, nerve cells connected to one another by synapses.
Scientists have developed devices which can detect some of those signals - either using a non-invasive cap placed on the head or wires implanted into the brain itself.
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