Elon Musk Announced The Next Neuralink Implant Will Give Sight To The blind

The owner of Neuralink, Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, announced the release of the Blindsight brain implant, which can allow blind people to see. He wrote about this on his X (former Twitter).

“The first application we’re going to aim for in people is restoring vision, and even if someone never had vision, as if they were born blind, we believe we can still restore vision. The visual cortex still exists. Even if they’ve never seen it before, we’re confident they can see it,” Musk said at the 2022 Neuralink Show & Tell.

“You want to be able to read brain signals. You want to be able to record signals. Ultimately, you want to be able to do this for the whole brain and then extend it to the rest of your nervous system if you have a spinal cord injury or a neck injury,” he added.

On February 20, Musk reported that the first patient with an implanted brain chip from Neuralink was able to control a computer mouse with the power of thought.

He noted that Neuralink will now try to get as many mouse clicks from the patient as possible.