Elon Musk’s company Neuralink just shared a video showing a quadriplegic person playing chess by moving the pieces with his brian following a surgery where doctors implanted a Neuralink chip in his brain in January 2024.
The patient, Noland Arbaugh, says in the video he would think about moving his hand and that, eventually, moving the computer cursor became second nature for him.
“It just became intuitive to me to start imagining the cursor moving. It was like using The Force on the cursor, and I could get it to move wherever I wanted.” he said.
This is an amazing medical and technological breakthrough that could help millions, and is just another example of what Elon Musk can bring to this world.
Paralyzed person shown playing chess on laptop using brain implant in Neuralink livestream