Neuralink has said the devices could help restore vision and enable people with severe disabilities to move and communicate by decoding brain activity.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink startup has begun recruiting for its first human trial of what it calls an implantable, wireless brain-computer interface.
The clinical trial, called the PRIME study, has been approved by an independent institutional review board and by the trial’s first hospital site. It will test the safety of the Neuralink implant and its surgical robot. The study will also assess the functionality of the brain-computer interface, and its ability to enable people with paralysis to control devices.
In May, Neuralink received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to conduct its first in-human clinical study. The primary study will take about 18 months and the trial will take about six years to finish when including longterm follow-up sessions.
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