Neuralink's First Human Patient Fully Recovers and Controls Mouse with Thought, Musk Announces

Phoenix Technology News: On February 20 (Beijing time), Tesla’s fervent investor Sawyer Merritt revealed on the X platform that Elon Musk announced the first human to receive a Neuralink brain implant had fully recovered.

X Platform Information Release

During a Spaces event on the social media platform X, Musk stated, “Progress is going well; the patient appears to have fully recovered, and we have observed neural effects. The patient can move the cursor on the screen simply by thinking.”

Musk stated that Neuralink is currently attempting to have patients perform as many mouse button clicks as possible.

Elon Musk had high hopes for the recipients’ recovery outcomes, and current results are already quite remarkable, enabling them to control a mouse cursor using their thoughts.

The accompanying video also seems to suggest that the researcher can control a smartphone via a brain-computer interface. Netizens were thrilled by this news and flocked to the comments section, hailing it as truly good tidings.

It is reported that Neuralink, a neurotechnology company co-founded by Elon Musk and seven scientists and engineers, is headquartered in California. The company primarily focuses on the research and development of implantable brain-computer interfaces—achieving information exchange between the human brain and external devices by developing a device capable of being implanted into the human brain.

Previously, on January 29 local time, Musk announced on social media that Neuralink had completed the first human brain device implantation surgery and introduced that Neuralink Corp's first product was named "Telepathy." He claimed, "You can control a mobile phone or computer just by thinking, and through them, control almost any device. The first users will be people who have lost limb function. Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a typist or an auctioneer. That is our goal."