At its Summer 2025 progress update, Neuralink shared the most advanced look yet at what brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can do today — and what they might unlock tomorrow.
The presentation highlighted real-world users whose lives have already been changed by the company’s wireless brain implant, with astonishing live demos showing Neuralink users moving computer cursors, controlling robotic arms, and even playing first-person shooter games, all with nothing but their thoughts.
A user named Noland demonstrated using Telepathy, Neuralink’s first product, to study languages, do math, and write — all by controlling a computer entirely with his brain. Brad, another participant with ALS who is nonverbal, shared how the implant has allowed him to communicate outdoors again — something not possible with traditional eye-tracking systems.
One of the most jaw-dropping segments showed participant Alex controlling a robotic hand to play rock-paper-scissors and later moving an actual Tesla Optimus robot hand using his neural signals. Neuralink says it’s working with Tesla on a real-world robotic limb that Alex can use in daily life.
Elon Musk teased even more ambitious goals: robotic limb replacements, full-body control of an Optimus robot, and spinal cord signal bridging to allow people with paralysis to walk again. The long-term vision includes restoring sight through Neuralink’s new visual prosthesis called Blindsight, which delivers camera-fed visual information directly to the brain.
Neuralink also unveiled a faster second-generation surgical robot and shared its plan to scale to thousands, and eventually millions, of implants. In Musk’s words: “What broadband internet did to the 56 kilobit modem is what this hardware is going to do to the brain.”
Check out Neuralink’s full Summer 2025 update below:
