The second implant would be in Noland Arbaugh’s spinal cord, and aims to help him walk again.
Neuralink’s first patient, Noland Arbaugh, is «fired up» about the possibility of a second implant, this one aimed at helping him walk again.
«I can’t overstate how fired up I am about the Neuralink dual implant», he says on X. «One in the brain, one below the injury, finally working together. The potential is unreal. Yeah… I’m amped.»
The 31-year-old became a quadriplegic after a 2016 diving accident, and received the Neuralink implant in 2024, which he’s named Eve. With it, he can control electronic devices, opening up ways to work, text, or play video games. He’s even writing a book.
But none of that helps him walk. A dual implant would go into his spinal cord, not his skull, like the first one.
