The company has shown its first patient moving a cusror on a computer using an implanted device, Noland Arbaugh uses the cursor to play chess online. Mr Arbaugh was paralysed below the shoulders after a diving accident and received the chip implanted in January.
Mr Arbaugh also said that he had used the brain implant to play the video game Civilization VI. Neuralink gave him “the ability to do that again and played for eight hours straight”, he said.
Neuralink’s device, which is about the size of a one pound coin, is inserted into the skull, with microscopic wires which can read neuron activity and beam back a wireless signal to a receiving unit.
The company has also run trials in pigs and claimed that monkeys can play a basic version of the video game Pong.