# Elon Musk Announces Blindsight First Human Implants Expected Within 6 to 12 Months

> news · REPORTED · 2026-08-11

Elon Musk announced at a Y Combinator event that Neuralink plans to conduct its first human implants of Blindsight, a visual cortex stimulation device, within 6 to 12 months, targeting people with total vision loss including those blind from birth. Blindsight bypasses the optic nerve and directly stimulates the visual cortex to produce visual perception.

About Neuralink: Neuralink develops implantable brain-computer interface devices, including its Telepathy motor-control implant for paralysis patients and its Blindsight visual prosthesis targeting individuals with severe vision impairment.

- Company: Neuralink
- Sector: neurotech
- Primary source: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/elon-musk-provides-update-blindsight-implant-trials

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