Thousands Are Ready To Allow Elon Musk’s Neuralink To Open Their Skulls, Implant Brain Chips – News18

We have seen science fiction movies and TV shows where humans and machines become one—think Terminator or Robocop. While this may have seemed like a far-fetched reality, the fact of the matter is—Elon Musk’s Neuralink is looking for a volunteer who is ready to go under the knife and get brain chip implants.

This marks Neuralink’s first-ever clinical trial, and as reported by Bloomberg/Ashlee Vance, Neuralink wants someone who is willing to let the company surgically open up a part of their skull, insert a series of electrodes, and thin wires into their brain.

Furthermore, this procedure would be done entirely using a robot. According to the report, “When the robot finishes, the missing piece of skull will have been replaced with a computer the size of a quarter that’s meant to stay there for years.” This computer’s job would be to analyse the volunteer’s brain activity and send that information wirelessly to a laptop or tablet.

Vance notes that this is a rather new process in medicine, yet thousands of volunteers are still applying to undergo this procedure. However, the ideal candidate would need to be under 40 and have paralysis in all four limbs.

What Does Neuralink Aim To Accomplish Through This Trial?

Vance notes that Neuralink is essentially aiming to read a person’s thoughts as commands through a computer, allowing the computer to understand these commands and create a machine-man hybrid of sorts.

These humans would be able to upload and download information from storage and even transmit to other brains. While this sounds straight out of a science-fiction movie, this is exactly what Neuralink wants to accomplish.