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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Mary-Ann Russon

Brain implants: The reality behind Elon Musk’s sci-fi dreams of mind control

The often-secretive brain-implants industry is clearly having a moment.

On the one hand, a group of Swiss and French doctors confirmed they had enabled a Dutch paraplegic man to walk again simply by asking the patient to think about it and using artificial intelligence to read brain signals sent from wireless chips implanted in his spine and brain.

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