{"id":199878,"date":"2024-11-20T23:32:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T05:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/neuralink-transplant-patient-can-control-computer-mouse-by-just-thinking-elon-musk-says"},"modified":"2024-11-20T23:32:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T05:32:44","slug":"neuralink-transplant-patient-can-control-computer-mouse-by-just-thinking-elon-musk-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/neuralink-transplant-patient-can-control-computer-mouse-by-just-thinking-elon-musk-says","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink transplant patient can control computer mouse \u2018by just thinking,\u2019 Elon Musk says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuralink-transplant-patient-can-control-computer-mouse-by-just-thinking-elon-musk-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recipient of the world\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/neuralink-implant-elon-musk\/72404741007\/\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Neuralink brain-chip transplant<\/a> is able to control a computer mouse by thinking, the tech startup\u2019s founder Elon Musk announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProgress is good, and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of,\u201d Reuters <a href=https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/neuralinks-first-human-patient-able-control-mouse-through-thinking-musk-says-2024-02-20\/ data-t-l=:b|z|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>reported<\/a> that Musk said in an X Spaces event on Monday. \u201cPatient is able to move a mouse around the screen by just thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk added that Neuralink was trying to get the patient to click the mouse as much as possible, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recipient of the world\u2019s first Neuralink brain-chip transplant is able to control a computer mouse by thinking, the tech startup\u2019s founder Elon Musk announced this week. \u201cProgress is good, and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of,\u201d Reuters reported that Musk said in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"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-199878","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\/199878","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}