Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that his company Neuralink has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human for the first time.

“Initial results revealed promising neuron spikes or nerve impulses and the patient is recovering,” he said.

The company’s goal is to connect the human brain with computers to help treat complex neurological conditions.

A number of rival companies have already implanted similar devices. Musk’s company was given permission to test the chip on humans by the FDA in May, a milestone after earlier efforts to win approval.

That gave the green light to start the six-year study during which a robot is being used to surgically place 64 flexible threads, thinner than a hair, in a part of the brain that controls “the intention of movement,” according to Neuralink.

The company says these threads allow its experimental implant, powered by a battery that can be charged wirelessly, to record and transmit brain signals wirelessly to an app that decodes how the person intends to move.

Posting on X, the social media platform he owns, Musk said Neuralink’s first product would be called Telepathy.

“Telepathy would allow you to control your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking. The first users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs”, he emphasized.

While Musk’s involvement raises Neuralink’s profile, it faces rivals, some of whom have a history dating back two decades.Existing devices have also generated results. In two separate recent scientific studies in the US, implants were used to monitor brain activity when a person tried to speak, which could then be decoded to help them communicate.

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