Elon Musk says Neuralink has successfully implanted brain chip in 2nd patient [Video]

The startup neurotechnology company Neuralink has successfully implanted a second paralyzed patient with the company’s brain chip device, according to the company’s founder Elon Musk.

The billionaire announced on a recent podcast with computer scientist Lex Fridman that the operation went “extremely well” and that the patient who received it had a spinal cord injury similar to the first person who got the implant earlier this year. According to Musk, the brain chip is designed to help people who are paralyzed use digital devices simply by thinking.

“I don’t want to jinx it but it seems to have gone extremely well with the second implant,” Musk told Fridman. “So, there’s a lot of signal, a lot of electrodes. It’s working very well.”

Musk added that the company is hoping to test the brain implant on eight additional patients by the end of this year.

“It depends somewhat on the regulatory approval, …