Neuralink’s First Patient May Get a Dual Implant Upgrade

Neuralink’s first patient, Noland Arbaugh, is “fired up” about the possibility of a second implant, this one aimed at helping him walk again.

“I can’t overstate how fired up I am about the Neuralink dual implant,” he says on X. “One in the brain, one below the injury, finally working together. The potential is unreal. Yeah… I’m amped.”

The 31-year-old became a quadriplegic after a 2016 diving accident, and received the Neuralink implant in 2024, which he’s named Eve. With it,…