Matthew MacDougall

You know, the outcome wasn't particularly in question in terms of our participants' safety. The number of observers, you know, the number of people—there's conference rooms full of people watching live streams in the hospital— rooting for this to go perfectly.

You know, the outcome wasn't particularly in question in terms of our participants' safety. The number of observers, you know, the number of people—there's conference rooms full of people watching live streams in the hospital— rooting for this to go perfectly.

You know, the outcome wasn't particularly in question in terms of our participants' safety. The number of observers, you know, the number of people—there's conference rooms full of people watching live streams in the hospital— rooting for this to go perfectly.

And that just adds pressure that is not typical for even the most intense production neurosurgery, say removing a tumor or placing deep brain stimulation electrodes. And it had never been done on a human before. There were unknown unknowns. And so...

And that just adds pressure that is not typical for even the most intense production neurosurgery, say removing a tumor or placing deep brain stimulation electrodes. And it had never been done on a human before. There were unknown unknowns. And so...

And that just adds pressure that is not typical for even the most intense production neurosurgery, say removing a tumor or placing deep brain stimulation electrodes. And it had never been done on a human before. There were unknown unknowns. And so...

Definitely a moderate pucker factor there for the whole team, not knowing if we were going to encounter, say, a degree of brain movement that was unanticipated, or a degree of brain sag that took the brain far away from the skull and made it difficult to insert, or some other unknown unknown problem.

Definitely a moderate pucker factor there for the whole team, not knowing if we were going to encounter, say, a degree of brain movement that was unanticipated, or a degree of brain sag that took the brain far away from the skull and made it difficult to insert, or some other unknown unknown problem.

Definitely a moderate pucker factor there for the whole team, not knowing if we were going to encounter, say, a degree of brain movement that was unanticipated, or a degree of brain sag that took the brain far away from the skull and made it difficult to insert, or some other unknown unknown problem.

Fortunately, everything went well, and that surgery was one of the smoothest outcomes we could have imagined. Were you nervous? I mean, you're a bit of a quarterback in the Super Bowl kind of situation. Extremely nervous. Extremely. I was very pleased when it went well and when it was over. Yeah. Looking forward to number two.

Fortunately, everything went well, and that surgery was one of the smoothest outcomes we could have imagined. Were you nervous? I mean, you're a bit of a quarterback in the Super Bowl kind of situation. Extremely nervous. Extremely. I was very pleased when it went well and when it was over. Yeah. Looking forward to number two.

Fortunately, everything went well, and that surgery was one of the smoothest outcomes we could have imagined. Were you nervous? I mean, you're a bit of a quarterback in the Super Bowl kind of situation. Extremely nervous. Extremely. I was very pleased when it went well and when it was over. Yeah. Looking forward to number two.

Well, I think wealth is easy to hate or envy or whatever. And I think there's a whole industry around driving clicks and And bad news is great for clicks. And so any way to take an event and turn it into bad news is going to be really good for clicks.

Well, I think wealth is easy to hate or envy or whatever. And I think there's a whole industry around driving clicks and And bad news is great for clicks. And so any way to take an event and turn it into bad news is going to be really good for clicks.

Well, I think wealth is easy to hate or envy or whatever. And I think there's a whole industry around driving clicks and And bad news is great for clicks. And so any way to take an event and turn it into bad news is going to be really good for clicks.

Now that there is a human with literal skin in the game, there's a participant whose well-being rides on this doing well. You have to be a pretty bad person to be rooting for that to go wrong. And so hopefully people look in the mirror and realize that at some point.

Now that there is a human with literal skin in the game, there's a participant whose well-being rides on this doing well. You have to be a pretty bad person to be rooting for that to go wrong. And so hopefully people look in the mirror and realize that at some point.

Now that there is a human with literal skin in the game, there's a participant whose well-being rides on this doing well. You have to be a pretty bad person to be rooting for that to go wrong. And so hopefully people look in the mirror and realize that at some point.

Yeah. I mean, I, you know, because, uh, um, an MD needs to be in charge of all of the medical decision-making throughout the process. Um, I unscrubbed from the surgery after exposing the brain and presenting it to the robot and, um, place the targets on the robot software interface that tells the robot where it's going to insert each thread.

Yeah. I mean, I, you know, because, uh, um, an MD needs to be in charge of all of the medical decision-making throughout the process. Um, I unscrubbed from the surgery after exposing the brain and presenting it to the robot and, um, place the targets on the robot software interface that tells the robot where it's going to insert each thread.