A little more than a month after patient zero Noland Arbaugh received the chip, the first problems began. Noland Arbaugh made ...

But one challenge facing Neuralink is the chip’s thread-based electrodes, which attach to the patient's brain and are used to detect their neural activity. *Deals are selected by our commerce ...

Neuralink has revealed plans to change how it surgically implants brain-computer interfaces in human patients, after shifting air bubbles contributed to a number of electrode-bearing threads ...

Neuralink implants BCI on 6th person, Rob Grenier, a quadraplegic man who can now play videogame with his thoughts.

Rob Grenier became paralyzed after a car accident in 2022. He very recently received a Neuralink brain implant in June 2025 ...

FIRST NEURALINK PATIENT PLAYS CHESS WITH BRAIN CHIP IMPLANT IN NEW VIDEO Smith ... Smith said it replaced a hole in his skull, and the threads were placed just a few millimeters into his brain ...

At the time, Musk said 400 of the implant's electrodes on the second patient's brain were working. The threads have more than 1,000 electrodes in total. Neuralink aims to eventually create a ...

Neuralink also plans to insert some threads deeper into the brain tissue and track how much movement occurs, according to the company livestream. Dr. Matthew MacDougall, head of neurosurgery at ...

Arbaugh underwent brain surgery in January to receive the Neuralink implant, but a few weeks later, the device started to malfunction. The implant has 64 thin, flexible wire threads that penetrate ...

Neuralink is building a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, which is a system that translates brain signals into commands for external technologies.