Founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, has said that his neurotechnology company, Neuralink, aims to build chips that can be implanted into the human brain. The chips could be ready by next year.
Elon Musk had also sain in 2019 that he wanted to start testing the brain chips in humans in 2020, but the circumstances did not allow it to happen.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit, Musk talked about Neuralink’s objectives for 2022. He said that they have already started implanting neurochips in monkeys. If the trial proves a success, they will be able to move on the implanting tests in humans.
Musk said:
Neuralink’s working well in monkeys and we’re actually doing just a lot of testing and just confirming that it’s very safe and reliable and the Neuralink device can be removed safely. We hope to have this in our first humans — which will be people that have severe spinal cord injuries like tetraplegics, quadriplegics — next year, pending FDA approval.”
He also shared on Twitter that his plans “will accelerate when we have devices in humans (hard to have nuanced conversations with monkeys) next year.
