2023-06-17 22:09:19
Billionaire Elon Musk said yesterday that he expects his startup Neuralink, which specializes in producing electronic chips that can be implanted in the brain, to start its first human trial this year.
Speaking at the Vivatech technology conference in Paris, in a webcast, Musk said Neuralink, a company he co-founded, plans to implant a chip into the brain of a paraplegic or paraplegic patient.
Musk did not specify the number of patients in whom his company would implant the chips or the duration, but Musk, who is CEO of Tesla electric cars, the social networking platform Twitter and the SpaceX space rocket company, said: “It seems that the first case will be later in the year.” this year”.
Last month, Neuralink said it won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct its first human clinical trial, a milestone for the start-up at a time when it faces investigations in the United States over its animal testing method.
The administration acknowledged in a previous statement that it had allowed Neuralink to conduct experiments to implant chips in the brain using a surgical robot in the experiments, but it refused to elaborate. Experts told Archyde.com earlier that if Neuralink can prove that its devices are safe for humans, it will take a few years or perhaps more than a decade to obtain a license for commercial use.
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