Like the US study, the CAN-PRIME Neuralink trial will only consider patients who can't use their hands and is designed to help them operate phones and computers with their thoughts.

Elon Musk's Neuralink has received Health Canada's approval to conduct its first clinical trial at Toronto Western Hospital, marking its expansion into Canada and opening recruitment for patients with quadriplegia.

Canadian neurosurgeons in partnership with Elon Musk's Neuralink have regulatory approval to recruit six patients with paralysis willing to have a thousand electrode contacts in their brains. The trial,