What they build
A coin-sized brain implant, the robot that places it, and the human studies underway.
The device
Products and studies
The people in the trial
27+ people have the implant, by Neura Pod's October 2026 estimate: about 16 in the United States, 7 in the United Kingdom, and 4 in Canada. Neuralink's own last count was 21, on January 28, 2026. The cards below cover the participants who have gone public; see every participant in the Neura Pod patient table.
He was the first recipient, and he returned to school after learning to control a computer by thought.
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He was the first to control a robotic arm with the implant, and he designs 3D-printed parts by thought.
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He was the first person with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, a disease that destroys the nerves that control muscle) to get the implant, and he speaks through a computer-generated copy of his voice built from earlier recordings.
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He uses the implant to keep working at his job by computer.
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Paralyzed in a motorcycle accident, he controls his computer, phone, and TV through the implant.
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He is from Twin Falls, Idaho, and moves a cursor and plays games by thought.
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He takes part in both the PRIME and CONVOY studies.
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He controls a robotic arm with his implant and can feed himself without help again.
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She was the first woman to receive a Neuralink implant, and she makes digital art with it.
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He was the first participant implanted in the United Kingdom, at University College London Hospitals in October 2025.
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He was implanted in London on December 11, 2025, the fifth PRIME Study participant in Great Britain.
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He says the technology understands what he wants to do and does it.
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He is from Roscommon, Ireland, and the device worked the first time he connected it to his laptop after a short calibration.
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He takes part in the VOICE trial at UT Southwestern, which tests whether the implant can turn thought into speech.
View profile on Neura Pod →He is from Corpus Christi, Texas, lives in San Antonio, and takes part in the PRIME Study at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.
View profile on Neura Pod →He goes by LeBrain James on X, and in September 2026 he took his robotic arm to an Ohio State game.
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He is a professional drafter who relies on a ventilator full time and hopes the implant will let him return to work.
View profile on Neura Pod →He is the third VOICE trial participant, and in September 2026 Neuralink shared video of him telling his wife “I love you” in a voice decoded from his brain.
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On May 20, 2026 he became the first Canadian with ALS to receive the implant, in the first Neuralink surgery to pass the threads through the dura, the brain’s tough outer membrane, without opening it.
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Neuralink's trials run at 7 hospitals in 4 countries, and 5 of them have performed implants.
- 1Phoenix: Barrow Neurological InstitutePRIME, CONVOY · First implant: January 2024
- 2Dallas: UT Southwestern Medical CenterVOICE · First implant: January 2026
- 3Miami: University of Miami HealthPRIME, CONVOY · First implant: April 2025
- 4Toronto: University Health NetworkCAN-PRIME · First implant: August 2025
- 5Newcastle: Newcastle upon Tyne HospitalsGB-PRIME · No implant reported yet
- 6London: University College London HospitalsGB-PRIME · First implant: October 2025
- 7Abu Dhabi: Cleveland Clinic Abu DhabiUAE-PRIME · No implant reported yet
In his words
The first @Neuralink product is called Telepathy
Elon Musk (@elonmusk), January 29, 2024
Elon Musk posted the name the day after Noland Arbaugh's surgery, the first human implant.
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