American entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed that patients who had a small device developed by his venture company implanted in their brains were able to move a mouse just by thinking.
In January, Musk announced that he had begun a clinical trial in which a small device developed by Neuralink, a venture company he founded, would be implanted in patients' brains and connected directly to computers.
Regarding this, Mr. Musk said at an online event on the 19th that the patient was recovering and that he was ``now able to move the mouse just by thinking.''
He said, ``Right now I'm trying to press as many buttons as possible.''
Regarding this announcement, some media in the United States have pointed out that there is no objective evidence such as footage, and there is no third party confirmation in the form of academic papers.
Universities and companies are conducting research into technology that directly connects the brain and computer, with the aim of allowing people with physical disabilities to operate computers just by thinking.
In the United States, another medical venture conducted a clinical trial on a device that reads signals by passing wires through blood vessels in the brain, and published in an academic paper last year that it was able to communicate without any problems for a year. Interest in technology development is increasing.