{"id":988704,"date":"2026-01-30T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988704"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:25:51","slug":"elon-musks-neuralink-says-it-has-21-participants-enrolled-in-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/elon-musks-neuralink-says-it-has-21-participants-enrolled-in-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Neuralink says it has 21 participants enrolled in trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s brain implant company Neuralink \u200dsaid on Wednesday \u200bit now has 21 total participants \u2060enrolled in trials worldwide, as it completes two years since it officially began testing on humans. <\/p>\n<p>This marks an \u200cincrease \u200cfrom the 12 people the company in September said had \u200creceived its chips and were using them to control digital and physical tools through thought. <\/p>\n<p>The implant is designed to help people with conditions such \u200bas a spinal cord injury. \u200bThe first patient has used it to \u200cplay video \u200dgames, browse the internet, post \u200don social media and move a cursor \u200con a laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s brain implant company Neuralink \u200dsaid on Wednesday \u200bit now has 21 total participants \u2060enrolled in trials worldwide, as it completes two years since it officially began testing on humans. This marks an \u200cincrease \u200cfrom the 12 people the company in September said had \u200creceived its chips and were using them to control digital and physical tools through thought. The implant is designed to help people with conditions such \u200bas a spinal cord injury. \u200bThe first patient has used it to \u200cplay video \u200dgames, browse the internet, post \u200don social media and move a cursor \u200con a laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}