The goal is to test whether the chip can give people who are paralyzed the ability to use their mind to control electronic devices.

Elon Musk and a team of eight scientists and engineers founded the neurotech company Neuralink. Nine years later they ...

Doctors implanted the first microchip backed by Elon Musk into a patient’s brain at a Florida hospital, NBC affiliate WTVJ.

A paralyzed U.S. military veteran had a brain chip from Elon Musk’s Neuralink implanted at University of Miami Health System’s flagship hospital. Patient “RJ,” who injured his spinal cord during a ...

Neuralink, Elon Musk 's BCI or Brain-Chip Interface company, has added a BCI implant on a sixth individual. What Happened: "Absolutely amazing what I can do already in under a week with Neuralink ...

The device enables patients to control devices such as computers and smartphones with their thoughts.

But brain implants don't need to be as invasive as they might sound, he said. Precision is developing a thin film that sits on the brain and records brain activity in patients with paralysis.

Elon Musk's Neuralink faces backlash from the deaf community after proposing brain implant technology to restore hearing, with deaf adults calling for inclusion in the research process.

People who can no longer move or speak may soon have a new option: an implanted device that links their brain to a computer.