Noland Arbaugh is the first person to receive a Neuralink implant.
He was paralyzed from the shoulders down in a 2016 accident and was implanted on January 28, 2024, at Barrow Neurological Institute. He has since returned to college to study neuroscience, according to Neuralink, and by October 2026 he had used his implant for more than 9,000 hours (Neuralink). Read his profile.
