Two Toronto hospital patients have become the first Canadians recipients of the Neuralink brain chip created by American tech billionaire Elon Musk.
Operations carried out on Aug. 27 and Sept. 3 at Toronto Western Hospital make it the first hospital in Canada to successfully implant the wireless brain-computer interface, the University Health Network (UHN) said in a press release.
The surgeries carried out on quadriplegia patients were part of a clinical trial known as the Canadian Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface Study and marked the first Neuralink procedures conducted outside the United States.
“It’s a profound honour to be a part of this breakthrough research and to lead Canada’s first Neuralink surgeries,” Dr. Andres Lozano, a neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospital, said in the Sept. 4 press release….