Noland Arbaugh (Picture credit: X)
A groundbreaking moment in neurotechnology has taken centre stage in the life of Noland Arbaugh, a 30-year-old man from Arizona, US, who became the first person to receive a brain chip implant from Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
Arbaugh, who was paralysed below the shoulders following a diving accident in 2016, received the chip in January 2024 and the results have already been nothing short of extraordinary, reported BBC.
The device, a brain-computer interface (BCI), enables Arbaugh to control a computer using only his thoughts. “You just have no control, no privacy, and it’s hard,” he said, recalling his early struggles with paralysis. But after the surgery, he could move a computer cursor by merely thinking about moving his fingers….