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The company led by the billionaire, Neuralink, aims to treat conditions such as paralysis and blindness by connecting brains to computers using microchips.
To advance this mission, the company proposes to carry out a surgical procedure in which a robot will inserting a chip directly into patients' brains, testing the effectiveness of this technology in human beings humans.
To date, the implants have only been tested on animals, such as monkeys and pigs, and it is necessary to carry out tests on humans.
One of Elon Musk's biographers, Ashlee Vance, indicated that Neuralink experienced “a wave of interest of thousands of potential patients”, who voluntarily presented themselves as guinea pigs human.
Although the company has not yet implanted its device in humans, it is scheduled to operate at 11 people next year and at more than 22,000 by 2030, according to information from Vance.
Neuralink launched a recruitment campaign in September for the first human trials. This campaign targets people with paralysis as part of a six-year study.
In recent years, Neuralink has been the subject of controversy, raising ethical questions and generating skepticism among neuroscientists and other experts.
In 2015, Veance commented in a report for Bloomberg that the candidate considered ideal for the first test Neuralink human must be an adult under the age of 40 who has all four limbs paralysed.
He described the procedure, explaining that it would take a few hours for a surgeon to perform a craniectomy, followed by for approximately 25 minutes for a robot to insert the chip into the region of the brain responsible for controlling hands, wrists and forearms.
The purpose of the surgery is to demonstrate the device's safe ability to collect specific data from that particular part of the patient's brain.
The step is crucial in Neuralink's efforts to turn a person's thoughts into a sequence of commands understandable by a computer, Vance added.
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