New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Noland Arbaugh, the first person to get a brain chip implant by Elon Musk's Neuralink has shared how the new technology has transformed his life 18 months after the surgery. Notably, Arbaught had dislocated two of his vertebrae during a swimming accident in 2016 and therafter lost sensation and movement below his shoulders.

Arbaugh had received the implant in 2024 where a surgical robot drilled a coin sized hole in his kull and implanted the Neuranlink chip, connecting its over 1,000 electrodes to the neurons in his brain. The device detects and decodes electrical signals in his rbrains and translates them into digital commands.

Through the Brain computer interface (BCI), Arbaugh is able to control his computer and...