Elon Musk’s Neuralink Chips Implanted for the First Time in Canadian Patients

Dr. Andres Lozano, the Alan and Susan Hudson Cornerstone Chair in Neurosurgery at the University Health Network (UHN), is seen in an operating room at Toronto Western Hospital on Aug. 27, 2025 during the first Neuralink procedure in Canada. UHN Handout photo

Two Toronto hospital patients have become the first Canadians recipients of the Neuralink brain chip created by American tech billionaire Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company.

Operations carried out on Aug. 27 and Sept. 3 at Toronto Western Hospital make it the first hospital in Canada to successfully implant the wireless brain-computer interface, the University Health Network (UHN) said in a press release.