Elon Musk says Neuralink will start implanting chips in the human brain by 2022

Elon Musk, who has his fingers in many pies, revealed that his brain-interface techlogy company Neuralink will start implanting chips into brains of humans by 2022. While talking at Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit on Tuesday, December 7, Tesla and X chief updated about status of Neuralink and stated that chip is working fine in monkeys. Earlier in April, company h shared a video of a monkey, implanted with chip, playing ping-pong with his mind. Speaking about development, Musk was reported saying as per Daily Mail-

Neuralink's working well in monkeys and we're actually doing just a lot of testing and just confirming that it's very safe and reliable and Neuralink device can be removed safely. We hope to have this in our first humans next year. I think we have a chance of being able to allow someone who cant walk or use ir arms be able to walk again, but t naturally.

Talking about monkey that became an internet sensation after his 'mind pong' video, Musk said that animal, despite having a chip in his brain, looked rmal and ded that playing game telepathically is "profound'. Furr in his interview, he stated that only thing keeping Neuralink away from human trials is approval from Food and Drug ministration (FDA) as chip, which can also be removed, has proven to be safe. "Our standards for implanting device are higher than what FDA approves, just like our standards for safety are much higher than what US government requires," Daily Mail reported Musk as saying. Although 2022 seems too early, Neuralink is alrey past its deline as Musk h said in 2019 that his company will begin human trials by 2020 end. 

Replying to a tweet on Monday, Musk, however, clarified his stance as he wrote, "I am definitely t saying that we can for sure do this, but I am increasingly confident that it is possible."

What is Neuralink?

Neuralink was founded by Elon Musk in 2016 with an aim to create a human-machine interface that would help humans make direct interactions with computers. Once a chip is implanted in human brain, people will be able to control device only with ir minds, irrespective of ir physical abrmalities. According to Neuralink, chip contains micron-scale thres that are stitched to areas of brain which control movement. se thres send different signals to those parts of brain and direct m for specific actions. company says that this of brain interface can help people with neurological injury or disease. 

Im: AP