The Rundown: Musk will soon mass-produce brain implants

Posted on January 2, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

🧠 Musk will soon mass-produce brain implants
Image source: Ideogram / The Rundown
The Rundown: Elon Musk said on X that Neuralink aims for “high-volume production” of its brain implants and automated neurosurgery this year — pushing brain-computer interfaces out of bespoke experiments and into scalable medicine.
The details:
Neuralink says about a dozen severely paralyzed patients now use its implant to control a computer cursor and play games using only their thoughts.The first wave of applications targets people with serious neurological disorders, helping them communicate and manage daily tasks. Musk said the device’s threads will pass through the dura — the protective membrane around the brain — without surgeons needing to remove it.​ Neuralink still needs to clear clinical trials and secure full FDA approval before it can move from tightly controlled experiments to routine medical use in the U.S.
Why it matters: Musk has previously talked about scaling to more than a thousand patients by 2026, backed by a hiring spree. If he can pull that off ahead of rivals like Synchron and Precision Neuroscience, the company will be first to test whether BCIs can move from a medical moonshot to something closer to a commercial product.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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