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Elon Musk’s brain chip firm Neuralink lines up clinical trials in humans

Implants that Musk says could allow paralysed people to walk already tested on a macaque and a pig

Elon Musk: ‘I think we have a chance with Neuralink to restore full-body functionality to someone who has a spinal cord injury.’ Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/AP

The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain chip startup is preparing to launch clinical trials in humans.

Musk, who co-founded Neuralink in 2016, has promised that the technology “will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs”.

The Silicon Valley company, which has already successfully implanted artificial intelligence microchips in the brains of a macaque monkey named Pager and a pig named Gertrude, is now recruiting for a “clinical trial director” to run tests of the technology in humans.

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