Elon Musk's Neuralink announced Wednesday that it has gotten a green light from Canada to study its fully-implantable, wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) that will allow paralyzed patients to operate digital devices with mind control.
The study aims to evaluate the safety of implant and surgical robot and assess the initial functionality of BCI for enabling people with quadriplegia to control external devices with their thoughts. The trial is currently open to Canadian residents with limited or no ability to use both hands due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or cervical spinal cord injury, Neuralink said in a blogpost
