Neuralink First Human Trial

Neuralink's first human patient, Noland Arbaugh — paralyzed from the shoulders down — successfully controlled a computer cursor and played chess and video games using only his thoughts via the N1 implant in January 2024. The 1,024-electrode chip achieved 22x the bandwidth of previous brain-computer interfaces, and by 2025 a second patient was typing at 40 words per minute via neural signals alone.