“It’s like using the Force” on a computer cursor, according to Noland Arbaugh, referencing the Star Wars energy field. Arbaugh is a quadriplegic and the first person to get the Neuralink brain chip implant in January 2024 at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink has selected Miami as a clinical trial site for its brain-computer interface, the second U.S. site to participate in the groundbreaking research to aid people with

Musk’s startup company Neuralink has tapped the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine to be the second site in the country to test whether its brain chip can give people who are paralyzed the ability to use mind to wirelessly control computers, smartphones and other electronic devices.

Neuralink selected the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine as its second site to conduct clinical trials on the innovative idea. Levi is a neurosurgeon and clinical director for the school.

The university will become the second U.S.-based site for Neuralink's Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface (PRIME) study.