Elon Musk 'increasingly confident' Neuralink implants to cure paralysis will be in humans next year

Elon Musk has said he does not want to "raise hopes unreasonably" but is "increasingly confident" his brain-machine interface startup Neuralink will have its first implant devices in humans by 2022. The billionaire said he is "cautiously optimistic" the implants can restore full-body functionality for tetraplegics and quadriplegics, adding that the company's standards for implanting the brain-computer interface device are higher than what the FDA requires. "I think we have a chance with Neuralink to restore full-body functionality to someone who has a spinal cord injury," Musk said in a video interview during the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Conference. "I don't want to raise hopes unreasonably, but I'm increasingly convinced that this could be done," he added. Crypto market enters'extreme fear' following bitcoin crash – follow live France to mimic Elon Musk with own SpaceX-style launcher Suicide machine that kills users in the blink of an eye'legalised in Switzerland' Suicide machine that kills users in the blink of an eye'legalised in Switzerland' In April, the startup released a video of a monkey named Pager with the brain-computer interface chip that was able to play video games using only its mind.