Neura Pod (All Things Neuralink)
Jul 31, 2026 · 22 min · 11 segments
00:00 Intro00:40 Controlling a Wheelchair w/ Neuralink04:17 P26 Sergeant Lee Marten12:40 Latest Valuation13:20 Neuralink x Tesla Optimus Robot15:17 Elon’s Brother, Kimbal Was Paralyzed18:35 Solving…
Ryan TanakaHost
trials, we've been working really hard to give the world a brain computer interface powered wheelchair.
It's designed for anyone with trouble controlling their wheelchair physically by translating their neural signals so they can control the wheelchair with their mind.
What we've done here is we've developed a set of custom electronics to take cursor movements from a participant's imagined motions, translate them into analog signals, and use them to directly drive and control all the functionalities of the wheelchair.
This is the wheelchair control app, and we built a custom UI for our users.
I can now move my cursor up and slowly move the wheelchair forward or turn to the side, left or right.
And as I get more and more into the ring, it'll go faster and faster.
Really, we built this system with safety in mind.
As you can see here, if I let go, the cursor is slowly going back to the center.
So that way, if a user ever becomes incapacitated, they won't go driving directly into a wall, the cursor will allow them to go back to the center here.
Just to put into perspective how impactful and how freeing this is, CJ, Neuralink's 24th patient, told me, I would say the most important thing to me is being able to use my N1 to control my wheelchair.
I am honored to be developing this technology that will change the world and improve the lives of millions of people.
the beginning, driving the wheelchair with my Neuralink, it was a little stop and go.
But after a few minutes, it became kind of second nature.
The difference between operating my wheelchair via the Neuralink and joystick.
The joystick, it requires my head to be hunched over and it hurts tremendously.
Driving the wheelchair with my Neuralink, I can be in an upright position that is a good posture without being in a state where I'm in pain.
It's very rewarding and satisfying.
We've built this from the ground up to provide a completely new interface for controlling a wheelchair.
And we believe that this is just the start of helping restore mobility for everyone who's lost it.
The way this works is a machine learning model maps neural activity to a computer cursor moving up, down, left, and right.
The result is a decoding algorithm that enables the participant to control the cursor with their thoughts.
trials, we've been working really hard to give the world a brain computer interface powered wheelchair.
It's designed for anyone with trouble controlling their wheelchair physically by translating their neural signals so they can control the wheelchair with their mind.
What we've done here is we've developed a set of custom electronics to take cursor movements from a participant's imagined motions, translate them into analog signals, and use them to directly drive and control all the functionalities of the wheelchair.
This is the wheelchair control app, and we built a custom UI for our users.
I can now move my cursor up and slowly move the wheelchair forward or turn to the side, left or right.
And as I get more and more into the ring, it'll go faster and faster.
Really, we built this system with safety in mind.
As you can see here, if I let go, the cursor is slowly going back to the center.
So that way, if a user ever becomes incapacitated, they won't go driving directly into a wall, the cursor will allow them to go back to the center here.
Just to put into perspective how impactful and how freeing this is, CJ, Neuralink's 24th patient, told me, I would say the most important thing to me is being able to use my N1 to control my wheelchair.
I am honored to be developing this technology that will change the world and improve the lives of millions of people.
the beginning, driving the wheelchair with my Neuralink, it was a little stop and go.
But after a few minutes, it became kind of second nature.
The difference between operating my wheelchair via the Neuralink and joystick.
The joystick, it requires my head to be hunched over and it hurts tremendously.
Driving the wheelchair with my Neuralink, I can be in an upright position that is a good posture without being in a state where I'm in pain.
It's very rewarding and satisfying.
We've built this from the ground up to provide a completely new interface for controlling a wheelchair.
And we believe that this is just the start of helping restore mobility for everyone who's lost it.
The way this works is a machine learning model maps neural activity to a computer cursor moving up, down, left, and right.
The result is a decoding algorithm that enables the participant to control the cursor with their thoughts.
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