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Technology billionaire Elon Musk’s start-up Neuralink has distributed a video of a paraplegic person playing chess on a computer using his mind, apparently with the help of a brain implant. 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, who has been paralyzed from the shoulder down since a diving accident eight years ago, says in the clip that he can now control the cursor on a computer screen with his mind.
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Patient Arbaugh says he was able to leave the hospital just one day after the implant was inserted. At first he only thought about moving the cursor – until the implant system finally implemented his thoughts. Neuralink founder Musk announced in January that his company had inserted a brain implant into a patient for the first time. At the end of February he declared that he could now control a computer mouse with his thoughts.
The implants are about the size of five coins stacked on top of each other. They are intended to help people with neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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