Matthew MacDougall

Well, I see an MRI on a screen. I can't see everything that that DBS electrode is passing through on its way to that deep target. And so it's accepted with this approach that there's going to be about one in a hundred patients who have a bleed somewhere in the brain as a result of passing that wire blindly into the deep part of the brain. that's not an acceptable safety profile for Neuralink.

Well, I see an MRI on a screen. I can't see everything that that DBS electrode is passing through on its way to that deep target. And so it's accepted with this approach that there's going to be about one in a hundred patients who have a bleed somewhere in the brain as a result of passing that wire blindly into the deep part of the brain. that's not an acceptable safety profile for Neuralink.

Well, I see an MRI on a screen. I can't see everything that that DBS electrode is passing through on its way to that deep target. And so it's accepted with this approach that there's going to be about one in a hundred patients who have a bleed somewhere in the brain as a result of passing that wire blindly into the deep part of the brain. that's not an acceptable safety profile for Neuralink.

We start from the position that we want this to be dramatically, maybe two or three orders of magnitude safer than that. Safe enough really that you or I without a profound medical problem might on our lunch break someday say, yeah, sure, I'll get that. I've been meaning to upgrade to the latest version. And so the safety constraints given that are high.

We start from the position that we want this to be dramatically, maybe two or three orders of magnitude safer than that. Safe enough really that you or I without a profound medical problem might on our lunch break someday say, yeah, sure, I'll get that. I've been meaning to upgrade to the latest version. And so the safety constraints given that are high.

We start from the position that we want this to be dramatically, maybe two or three orders of magnitude safer than that. Safe enough really that you or I without a profound medical problem might on our lunch break someday say, yeah, sure, I'll get that. I've been meaning to upgrade to the latest version. And so the safety constraints given that are high.

And so we haven't settled on a final solution for arbitrarily approaching deep targets in the brain.

And so we haven't settled on a final solution for arbitrarily approaching deep targets in the brain.

And so we haven't settled on a final solution for arbitrarily approaching deep targets in the brain.

Exactly. So we've got vision on the surface. We actually have made a huge amount of progress sewing electrodes into the spinal cord as a potential workaround for a spinal cord injury that would allow a brain-mounted implant to translate motor intentions to a spine-mounted implant that can affect muscle contractions in previously paralyzed arms and legs.

Exactly. So we've got vision on the surface. We actually have made a huge amount of progress sewing electrodes into the spinal cord as a potential workaround for a spinal cord injury that would allow a brain-mounted implant to translate motor intentions to a spine-mounted implant that can affect muscle contractions in previously paralyzed arms and legs.

Exactly. So we've got vision on the surface. We actually have made a huge amount of progress sewing electrodes into the spinal cord as a potential workaround for a spinal cord injury that would allow a brain-mounted implant to translate motor intentions to a spine-mounted implant that can affect muscle contractions in previously paralyzed arms and legs.

Yeah. So we have anesthetized animals doing grasp and moving their legs in a sort of walking pattern. Again, early days, but the future is bright for this kind of thing. And people with paralysis should look forward to that bright future. They're going to have options.

Yeah. So we have anesthetized animals doing grasp and moving their legs in a sort of walking pattern. Again, early days, but the future is bright for this kind of thing. And people with paralysis should look forward to that bright future. They're going to have options.

Yeah. So we have anesthetized animals doing grasp and moving their legs in a sort of walking pattern. Again, early days, but the future is bright for this kind of thing. And people with paralysis should look forward to that bright future. They're going to have options.

Exoskeletons are getting better too. Exoskeletons.

Exoskeletons are getting better too. Exoskeletons.

Exoskeletons are getting better too. Exoskeletons.

Yeah. Our first participant is, he's incredible.

Yeah. Our first participant is, he's incredible.