Two Toronto hospital patients are now the first Canadians to have Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip implanted in the country.

The University Health Network (UHN) said in a news release Thursday the operations, conducted on Aug. 27 and Sept. 3 at Toronto Western Hospital, make it the first Canadian hospital to successfully implant the wireless brain-computer interface.

UHN also said the surgeries were the first Neuralink operations performed outside the United States.

The procedures were part of the Canadian Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface Study, a clinical trial evaluating the safety and functionality of Neuralink’s implant and surgical robot. Musk, the world’s richest man, co-founded Neuralink in 2016.

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