In a major development, the first patient with the brain chip implant manufactured by billionaire investor and businessman Elon Musk's startup Neuralink on Thursꦉday was seen pla꧒ying online chess and video games just by his moving his mind.
The widely circulated video showed the 29-year-old patient introducing himself a💫s Noland Arbaugh who has been paralysed below the shoulder after a diving accident.
Can't Describe How Cool It Is: The First Patient's Account
In the viral video, the patient could be seen playing chess on his laptop and moving the cursor using the Neural🍸ink device.
"If you all can see the cursor moving around the screen, that's all me," he said during the livestream🔴 as he moved a digi🌳tal chess piece.
"It's pretty cool, huh? I just can't even describe how cool it is to be ablꦉe to do this", he added.
While playing the game online, Arba♑ugh was also seen explaining the process of using 𝔍the brain-computer interface.
"I would attempt to move, say, my right hand, left, right, forward, back, and fr🔥om there I think it just became intuitive for me to start imagining the cursor moving," he said.
About the Neuralink brain chip
In the ambitious brain-chip study, a brain-computer interface (BCI) implant🅠 is surgically placed by a robot in a region of the brain that controls the intention to move, according to the manufacturer Neuralink.
The primary objective of the brain chip is to enable people to control a compಌuter cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone. The "ultra-fine" threads of the implants are expected to help transm🎀it signals in participants' brains.
The patient’s response is evaluated through the ‘spikes’ that denote the activity by neurons, which by using electrical and chemi💯cal signa🍨ls, send information around the brain and to the body.
