Neuralink is recruiting subjects for the first human trial of its brain-computer interface

"Neuralink’s PRIME Study plans to test the N1 implant, the R1 robot, and the software that could help people with --- The Verge

The third is the N1 User App, the software that connects to the N1 and translates brain signals into computer actions.After that, they’ll spend at least two hours a week on brain-computer interface research sessions and then do 20 more visits over the next five years.A few months after getting FDA approval for human trials, Neuralink is looking for its first test subjects.Neuralink says it’s planning to test both the safety and efficacy of all three parts of the system.Related:To be clear: this is not the all-encompassing brain computer Musk has been talking about for years.The six-year initial trial, which the Elon Musk-owned company is calling “the PRIME Study,” is intended to test Neuralink tech designed to help those with paralysis control devices.The first is the N1 implant, Neuralink’s brain-computer device.Researchers have long been testing implants that let people with paralysis control computers and other devices, too.Two recently published studies, for instance, showed brain-to-computer interfaces could help patients with ALS communicate by typing on a computer.The PRIME Study (which apparently stands for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface, even though that acronym makes no sense) is set to research three things at once.The company is also under investigation for illegally transporting pathogen-laced devices removed from monkeys.Its treatment of monkeys in testing has repeatedly been an issue, for one — Musk recently said that the testing was only done on “terminal monkeys” and that no monkey ever died as a result of a Neuralink implant, but re -- Continue Reading.