- Noland Arbaugh, who is paralyzed from the shoulders down, demonstrated how he controls a laptop with his mind with a Neuralink implant
Elon Musk’s cybernetic implant company, Neuralink, livestreamed video Wednesday of its first brain chip patient using his mind to play chess on a computer.
Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old paralyzed below the shoulders after a diving accident, demonstrated how he could control the cursor on his laptop with nothing other than his thoughts.
He used Neuralink’s wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) to play computer chess and discussed his surgery in a video viewed more than 15 million times on X, the social media platform owned by Musk.
“The surgery was super easy,” Arbaugh said. “I literally was released from the hospital a day later. I have no cognitive impairments.”
Arbaugh received the Neuralink implant in January. At the time, Musk reported test results showed “promising neuron spike detection.”
Since then, Arbaugh has learned to use his thoughts to control his computer and spent hours playing one of his favorite video games, Civilization VI.
“I had basically given up playing that game,” he said in the video. “You all [Neuralink] gave me the ability to do that again, and I played for eight hours straight.”
Arbaugh described his experience learning how to control the computer and said it is “not perfect,” adding they “have run into some issues.”
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