Medicine · Recorded milestone
Wireless brain implant
Recorded year2024
Neuralink's fully implanted wireless chip lets its first patient control a computer by thought, 20 years after BrainGate's wired implant.
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Led to
- Neural privacy protectionRecorded · 2024enables
- Smart home run by thoughtRecorded · 2024enables
- Bionic eyeRecorded · 2026enables
- Fully implanted speech BCIRecorded · 2026enables
- Brain-implant firewallsForecast · ~2031enables
- Brain-to-brain messagingForecast · ~2031enables
- Prosthetics with touchForecast · ~2032enables
- BCIs restore speech and movementForecast · ~2033enables
- Apps for the brainForecast · ~2034enables
- Ultrasound brain interfacesForecast · ~2034enables
- Non-invasive thought typingForecast · ~2036enables
- Consumer brain-data formatForecast · ~2041enables
- Cortical vision implantsForecast · ~2042enables
- Neural dustForecast · ~2058enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.