{"id":185672,"date":"2024-03-21T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/musks-neuralink-shows-first-brain-chip-patient-playing-online-chess"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:24:09","slug":"musks-neuralink-shows-first-brain-chip-patient-playing-online-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/musks-neuralink-shows-first-brain-chip-patient-playing-online-chess","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s Neuralink shows first brain-chip patient playing online chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musks-neuralink-shows-first-brain-chip-patient-playing-online-chess2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our H+ friend Rob Wilkes alerted me to this today!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>March 20 (Reuters) \u2014 Elon Musk\u2019s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess.<\/p>\n<p>Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device. The implant seeks to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using only their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Arbaugh had received an implant from the company in January and could <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/neuralinks-first-human-patient-able-control-mouse-through-thinking-musk-says-2024-02-20\/\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">control<\/a> a computer mouse using his thoughts, Musk said last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our H+ friend Rob Wilkes alerted me to this today! March 20 (Reuters) \u2014 Elon Musk\u2019s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess. Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}