Nuralink Company (Neuralink) Elon Musk, who wants to remove the limits of communication between humans and computers by developing a brain chip so that people can use it and connect their brains to the Internet to take control of digital devices with their brains, announced that Food and Drug Administration license It has received US (FDA) approval for its first human clinical study. Nevertheless, Neuralink can test its chip in a human brain for the first time.
this company In his new tweet Wrote:
“We are pleased to announce that we have received FDA approval to conduct our first human clinical study.
This is the result of the incredible work of the Neuralink team working closely with the FDA and is an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people.
Our recruitment process for this clinical trial has not started yet and we will announce more information soon!
Elon Musk said in December of last year that Neuralink will probably start its human trials in 6 months, which shows that the billionaire’s promise has been fulfilled unlike his other promises!
It remains to be seen who will be chosen to perform this important clinical trial. Will Musk go to a sick person for his company’s test, or will he himself apply for the Neuralink brain chip test? He had previously claimed that he would place the device in his own head at an unspecified time.
Problems and competitors of Nuralink in the past years
Meanwhile, Neuralink has faced a lawsuit from an animal rights group over the past years for abusing monkeys. The group claimed that Neuralink severely harmed laboratory monkeys, causing at least 15 deaths during its experiments. For this reason, Elon Musk’s startup activities came under the American federal microscope. The FDA also rejected Neuralink’s request to test the chip on humans late last year due to concerns about the chip’s safety.
Neuralink, founded in 2016, would not be the first company to test its brain-computer interface on a human. Synchron also received FDA approval for its trial in 2021 and performed the first chip implant on a US patient last year.
