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Research Explainer PRIME Study · Digital Autonomy Verified 30 Oct 2026

Telepathy and computer control: how PRIME trial participants use Neuralink at home

Telepathy is Neuralink's foundational clinical application in the PRIME Study (NCT06429735): turning imagined or attempted movements into wireless mouse, keyboard, and multi-click control on everyday computers, tablets, and phones. Across 21 disclosed trial participants as of January 2026, official videos document unsupervised daily home use spanning CAD modeling, digital art, strategy gaming, and handwriting.

NCT06429735Clinical registryThe PRIME Study on ClinicalTrials.gov
21Participants enrolledDisclosed in 'Two Years of Telepathy' (28 Jan 2026)
11.32 BPSPeak throughputCompany-reported single-participant cursor record
Multi-hourDaily home sessionsUsed independently on macOS, iOS and Windows
Key points
  • Telepathy is evaluated under the PRIME Study (NCT06429735) for people with quadriplegia caused by spinal cord injury or ALS.
  • Neuralink measures cursor performance in bits per second (BPS)—a standard Fitts'-law throughput metric that penalizes false clicks—reporting a peak human trial rate of 11.32 BPS.
  • Documented participant workflows include live chess and gaming (Noland), 3D CAD design (Alex), digital painting and drawing (Audrey), and neural handwriting signature decoding.
  • Demonstrations show strong individual autonomy in supervised and home settings, though outcomes vary across participants and remain part of an investigational feasibility study.

What Telepathy is—and how bits per second (BPS) measures real control

Telepathy Pipeline · PRIME Study (NCT06429735) How motor-cortex firing becomes smooth 2D cursor trajectory and multi-click control
STAGE 1 · CORTEX Motor Intent Primary motor cortex (M1) fires action potentials when user intends hand or finger motion. STAGE 2 · N1 ASIC Spike + LFP Readout 1,024 channels sample microvolt spikes & LFP power bands inside the sealed cranial package. STAGE 3 · TELEMETRY Wireless Stream Compressed neural feature packets transmit through scalp via Bluetooth radio. STAGE 4 · DECODER Velocity & Click ML Recurrent / foundation models predict (vx, vy) and discrete click states every few milliseconds. STAGE 5 · ACTION 11.32 BPS Peak OS cursor, CAD design, digital art, gaming & handwriting decoding at home.
Closed-loop motor decoding pipeline from cortical spikes in primary motor cortex to 2D cursor trajectory and click control.

In consumer media, 'Telepathy' is sometimes mistaken for reading arbitrary thoughts. In neuroengineering, its definition is concrete: Telepathy is a motor neuroprosthesis. The N1 implant is placed in the hand/arm knob of the primary motor cortex, and software decodes the participant's intention to move a cursor in two dimensions plus execute discrete left, right, middle, and drag clicks.

To compare BCI performance objectively across sessions and devices, researchers use a grid task governed by bits per second (BPS). A grid of targets appears on screen; the faster the participant moves to the highlighted cell and clicks accurately—minus penalties for wrong clicks—the higher the BPS score. On day one of human testing in early 2024, the first participant exceeded prior human BCI cursor benchmarks, and by late 2025 Neuralink reported a single-participant peak of 11.32 BPS (QJdgHXyJh7M, FASMejN_5gs).

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Official July 2025 participant profile ('Joining the PRIME Study: Audrey') showing how Audrey uses Telepathy at home for digital painting, computer navigation, and creative work after spinal cord injury.

Documented participant use cases from official video records

Across the 44 official uploads on @neuralink, participant demonstrations illustrate how high-throughput cursor control translates into everyday digital life:

Participant / milestonePrimary official video recordWhat the demonstration shows
Participant 1 (Noland) · First human use (Jan–Jul 2024)ZzNHxC96rDE, Ux5AiKmra-EWireless laptop cursor control, playing online chess and Civilization VI, and recovery of higher BPS via LFP decoding after partial thread retraction.
Participant 2 (Alex) · 3D CAD & FPS gaming (Aug 2024)Summer 2025 Update (FASMejN_5gs)Designing custom 3D-printed charger mounts in Fusion 360 CAD software and playing first-person games alongside a QuadStick controller.
Family & everyday home use (Jul 2025)ojLxgTFh3BkUsing the N1 implant at home during summer family activities and daily communication.
Audrey · Digital painting & creative tools (May–Aug 2026)5hYg3rUfLiQ, R03-DWvWmAY, niQD2LM1pccDrawing detailed digital portraits and animals freehand and playing video games using Telepathy cursor trajectories.
Handwriting decoding (May 2026)MYKEycYqRpkDecoding imagined pen strokes from motor cortex so a participant can write their own personal signature digitally.

Why home usability and calibration speed matter more than lab peaks

A laboratory BCI that requires two technicians and 45 minutes of daily recalibration is rarely used outside test sessions. As detailed in Neuralink's Fall 2025 update (QJdgHXyJh7M), two software advances underpin multi-hour home usage:

  • Self-supervised foundation models: By pretraining decoders across more than 50,000 hours of cumulative participant recordings, the model learns stable latent representations of motor intent even as individual neurons shift slightly from day to day.
  • Background online calibration: Instead of forcing the user into repetitive target-clicking drills every morning, decoders infer target intent during normal computer use to keep cursor alignment locked in.
  • Multi-device pairing: The Neuralink App bridges decoded cursor and gesture streams to standard accessibility interfaces on macOS, iPadOS, iOS, and Windows.

How Telepathy connects to CONVOY and VOICE

Once a reliable cortical decoding pipeline is running on a participant's device, the output target no longer has to be a 2D pixel on a monitor. Read PRIME, CONVOY and VOICE trials explained, Speech restoration and the VOICE trial, and Robotic arms and wheelchair mobility to see how the same N1 platform extends to speech synthesis and physical machines.

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PRIME, CONVOY & VOICE trials

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How Neuralink works

Learn how Neuralink's 1,024-electrode N1 implant, R1 surgical robot and real-time neural decoders translate brain signals into cursor and speech commands.

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Speech restoration (VOICE)

How Neuralink's VOICE clinical trial (NCT07224256) decodes speech-motor cortex activity into real-time text and personalized voice synthesis at up to 75 WPM.

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Robotic arms & wheelchairs

How Neuralink's CONVOY study and Telepathy interfaces let participants control assistive robotic arms and steer powered wheelchairs with neural signals.

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Sources checked 30 Oct 2026

Sources and official records

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  2. [2] Neuralink: Two Years of Telepathy (28 Jan 2026) · Verified 30 Oct 2026
  3. [3] ClinicalTrials.gov: The PRIME Study (NCT06429735) · Verified 30 Oct 2026
  4. [4] Neuralink YouTube (2026-05-15): Creating Art With The Mind | Neuralink · Verified 30 Oct 2026
  5. [5] Neuralink YouTube (2024-03-20): Neuralink Live Update - March 2024 · Verified 30 Oct 2026
  6. [6] Neuralink YouTube (2024-08-26): Neuralink Live Update - July 2024 · Verified 30 Oct 2026
  7. [7] Neuralink YouTube (2025-07-11): School's out for summer! Here's daddy-daughter time with one of our participants. · Verified 30 Oct 2026
  8. [8] Neuralink YouTube (2026-05-20): Signing My Name With My Mind · Verified 30 Oct 2026
  9. [9] Neuralink YouTube (2025-12-03): Neuralink Overview, Fall 2025 · Verified 30 Oct 2026