Elon Musk announces that a first brain implant has been placed on a patient. The company founded in 2016 says it wants to make paralyzed patients walk again, but also to restore sight to the blind.
Located in Fremont (California), in the suburbs of San Francisco, Neuralink obtained the green light from the American Drug and Medical Devices Regulatory Agency, the FDA, in May. Its implant, the size of a coin, has already been placed in the brain of a macaque, which managed to play the video game “Pong” without a controller or keyboard.