New Brain Implant Begins Human Trials - Neuralink Update

Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink is the billionaire entrepreneur's venture into an experimental medical industry known as Brain Computer Interface or BCI.

The next generation of brain computer interface is going to human trials for the first time in the United States .

The first BCI procedure to be approved by the FDA is not going to be a Neuralink implant.

The Stentrode is named after a long, thin, flexible tube that doctors can insert into a patient's blood vessel.

The wire at the other end of the stent is connected into a very small computer device that is implanted inside the patient's chest cavity.

The first US patient to receive their implant in America is a person suffering from ALS who has no ability to move their body or even speak.

The Link device would pair via Bluetooth with a computer or smartphone that would read the signals created in the brain and translate them into computer commands.

No one's ever had a robotic sewing machine stitch wires into a human brain before, and that likely means that Neuralink is going to need to present a very thorough and well tested proposal to the FDA in order to gain approval for human testing.