Neuralink, the company co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk, showed video Wednesday of its first quadriplegic patient with a brain chip implant playing chess with his mind.
The video, which was uploaded as a livestream to X by a Neuralink engineer, shows 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh sitting in front of a computer screen playing chess while discussing the new technology. Asked by the engineer to explain what he was doing, Arbaugh said he was moving the cursor on his computer with only his thoughts as he used the cursor to move chess pieces on the board.
“It’s all being done with my brain. If y’all can see the cursor moving around the screen, that’s all me, y’all,” he said.
Arbaugh, an Arizona man and former Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M, was paralyzed below his shoulders after a “freak diving accident” while he was working as a camp counselor eight years ago, The Daily Mail
