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Neuralink: Elon Musk wants to test his connected implants in the brains of humans "within six months"

2022-12-05T19:57:21.878Z


The start-up has provided the US health regulatory agency with the necessary documents to obtain authorization to test its device on a human.


This is a promise that must be taken with caution in view of previous statements.

But according to Elon Musk, his start-up Neuralink will be ready to test the implant of a first connected device in the brain of a human within six months.

This device, currently the size of a coin, should allow a human brain to communicate with computers directly by thought, without the need for an interface.

We obviously want to be very careful and to be sure that it will work well, but we have submitted all our documents to the FDA (the agency in charge of public health in the United States, editor’s note) and we believe that within six months we will be able to have our first implant in a human brain

“, said the boss of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter and other start-ups during a presentation of the progress of the Neuralink company.

We are now confident that Neuralink's device is ready for humans, so the timeline depends on the FDA approval process

,” he then clarified on Twitter, the social network he bought it. a month ago.

In 2020, the FDA had recognized the implant as a

“breakthrough device”

(“scientific breakthrough”).



The billionaire has already made several risky predictions, in particular about the autonomy of Tesla electric cars.

In July 2019, he estimated that Neuralink could carry out its first tests on individuals in 2020. So far, the prototypes have been implanted in the skulls of pigs and monkeys.

Several monkeys are thus able to “

play

” video games or “

type

” words on a screen, simply by following the movement of the cursor on the screen with their eyes.

Read alsoElon Musk's brain implant, between hope and fantasy

On Wednesday, Elon Musk and Neuralink engineers also took stock of the start-up's latest advances in the development of the robot surgeon and the development of other implants, to be installed in the spinal cord or the eyes, to return mobility or vision.

Other companies are working on controlling computers by thought, such as Synchron, which announced in July that it had implanted the first brain-machine interface in the United States.

In recent months, Elon Musk has urged his employees to work faster.

"

We'll all be dead before anything useful happens

," he told the Neuralink team during a meeting, according to Bloomberg.

The annual Neuralink conference is supposed to be used to generate vocations to recruit different specialists.

Source: lefigaro

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