The Clinatec laboratory in Grenoble, supported by the French Atomic Energy Commissioner, has been authorised to place microchips in the human brain since 2013. The aim is to take steps in the fight against Parkinson's disease, tetraplegia and depression.

The laboratory has six rooms, an operating room and 60 technicians, all of them engineers, doctors and biologists specialized in nanotechnology.

Tetraplegic volunteers, for example, will be given a box with electrodes in the brain. This box records brain activity, which through a robotic leg or arm becomes motion. In the case of patients with Parkinson's disease, we will try to reform the brainwaves that cause the disease.

To know the success of the trial we will have to wait until 2014.