1.. 2.. 3.. say cheese! 📷 Photo shoot of our R&D stimulation implant mounted on a surgical mechanism prior to packaging

It can be difficult to visualize how tiny our threads are. We had a banana for scale, but Pager ate it 🍌

We test 100% of our custom chips to characterize their performance before they get assembled in an implant. Only the best 🏅

Join us in developing our next generation robot to reduce surgery time while improving patient safety 🤖

We’re happy to announce our $280M Series D round led by Founders Fund. We’re extremely excited about this next chapter at Neuralink.

If you’d like to help make the first human experience incredible and work on engineering challenges to restore vision and mobility, come join!…

Our surgical team enhances their skills by training on realistic, patient-specific head and brain models, ensuring surgeries are tailored to each individual for safety and success 🧠

Our implant, placed under a thin silicone rubber that mimics the scalp, shows no damage after a repeated impact test. Recommend turning on 🔊

We use an artificial person to practice placing the Neuralink implant 👤

We use multiple scanning technologies to ensure that we target the optimal brain region with our implant. MRI and CT scans are aligned and used to guide the position of the implant on the skull surface intraoperatively. Functional MRI scans are used to identify the desired region…

Our surgeons use the lasso tool to highlight relevant brain regions based on fMRI. The robot leverages high resolution cameras to automatically place targets in the region of interests while avoiding the tiniest vessels that are not easily visible to the naked eye 🤠 #techtuesday

During the final inspection, we capture and stitch images of our arrays and use image detection algorithms to identify defects. Join us in refining our algorithms to distinguish between various types of particles and developing defect-free microfabrication processes 0⃣…

We attach our custom ASICs to our implant PCBA using flip chip bonding process. Here’s a sped up version of that process where we pick up the chip, apply flux, precisely align, and bond to the board.🎯 #techtuesday

We currently have over 20 of our latest generation implants that have passed the 5-year mark of accelerated aging on benchtop (and still going!) 5⃣🚀 #techtuesday

These are the first waveforms produced by our next generation stimulation ASIC on benchtop. This custom chip unlocks the ability to support 16k+ channels with sufficient voltage and current and the fine control required to restore vision or reanimate the body, something we hope…

We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study!

This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represents an important first step that will one day allow our…

Our surgical robot uses advanced imaging systems to detect the brain and insert threads away from blood vessels. Here, you can see everything the robot sees while we test the accuracy of each of the robot’s high-precision cameras 👀 #techtuesday

We use dynamic mechanical analyzers to fatigue test our threads and identify changes in their mechanical properties over time. It’s hard to spot, but here you can see us testing a thread by emulating the brain motion due to our heartbeat at 1Hz and an accelerated test at 10Hz 💫…

We test the thermal performance of our implants to ensure safety and improve efficiency. Here, we are taking infrared images to detect hotspots on the bottom surface of an implant while charging with the charger coil in different positions. Stay cool 😎 #techtuesday

Our 3 Rs blog series continues this week with a post on how Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees function in medical research.
neuralink.com/blog/the-role-…

Pager celebrates his 12th birthday foraging for treats. Happy birthday, friend!