Neuralink is conducting its PRIME study, aimed at evaluating the safety of its wireless brain-computer interface and surgical robot. It is assessing the initial effect of the implant in patients with quadriplegia, a form of paralysis, to control external devices with their thoughts.

Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company, Neuralink Corp., said it is starting to test a technology that could allow paralyzed people to control a robotic arm.

US-based Neuralink has received approval to launch a new feasibility trial studying its brain implant linked with an assistive robotic arm. Founded by Elon Musk, the company said that the trial, named CONVOY, will operate with cross-enrolling from the company’s ongoing PRIME study (NCT06429735), which is being completed in the US.