Elon Musk’s Neuralink Calls for Volunteers in Landmark Human Clinical Trial
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink is all set to do human trials as it’s recruiting people for the same. Elon Musk’s brain startup Neuralink has been trying to do something that hasn’t happened before. As it tries to make technology and humans come closer to each other. But why is it recruiting people in Neuralink?
Read ahead to learn more about Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink is recruiting people for its human clinical trial.
All about Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink
Neuralink is the brain startup of Elon Musk founded back in 2016 along with some scientists and engineers involved in it. The startup Neuralink focuses on a technology that will be an implantable, brain-computer neural device that can have human thoughts control things.
BREAKING: Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink has begun recruiting people for its first human trial. pic.twitter.com/kSawBeVrpU
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) September 20, 2023
Basically, it claims to do unexpected things like making people born with Paraplegia regain movement. Also, it will be beneficial to those born blind as it can restore vision. In fact, the clinical human trial of the same has begun by Neuralink.
Neuralink begins recruiting people for clinical human trial
The claims made about the neural device Neuralink have been fascinating. Meanwhile, the company has already started recruiting patients for the human clinical trial. It was via a blog post on Neuralink that the announcement came to be known.
We’re excited to announce that recruitment is open for our first-in-human clinical trial!
— Neuralink (@neuralink) September 19, 2023
If you have quadriplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), you may qualify. Learn more about our trial by visiting our recent blog post.…
The Musk-led company is recruiting patients with quadriplegia because of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or cervical spinal cord injury. The company looks forward to evaluating the working of its device allowing what it claims to do with the help of the human brain.
More about the human clinical trial by Neuralink
The initial and main motive of the Neuralink device is to control the cursor or keyboard with the help of the human mind. As the thoughts of humans would be able to move the cursor and so on. It has many more targets to achieve. But only time will tell if they prove helpful or not to humans.
The first human patient will soon receive a Neuralink device. This ultimately has the potential to restore full body movement.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 20, 2023
In the long term, Neuralink hopes to play a role in AI risk civilizational risk reduction by improving human to AI (and human to human) bandwidth by… https://t.co/DzqoYI27Ng
With its human clinical trial, the startup is moving a step ahead to realize its dream. Also, permission is now given to Neuralink to implant brain chips in humans. The results of the same would be much awaited by all. Eventually it will move forward to do some more inventions to help humans as it claims.
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