Matic home robot driven by thought: Neuralink patient #22 Zach McManus steers it around his home

Matic Robots posted a 26-second video on Nov. 2 that it says shows Zach, Neuralink patient #22, "using his thoughts to move Matic around his home." Zach McManus, who says on his X profile he is Neuralink's 22nd recipient and has ALS, first posted the demo on Oct. 20, calling Matic "the first robot vacuum in the world to be controlled, purely with thoughts." Matic's vision-guided vacuum-and-mop robot is listed from $1,495.

Neuralink says its Link implant lets people with paralysis operate phones and computers with their thoughts, and in November 2025 it highlighted a participant controlling an assistive robotic arm in its CONVOY study. This puts such of control on a consumer robot in a real home.

Neither Matic nor Zach has said how his commands reach the robot, through Matic's app or a Neuralink-built link, or how much of the driving the robot does on its own.

About the footage: Brain-controlled, per Matic and Zach: both say he steers the robot with his thoughts. Neither has said how much the robot navigates on its own.

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Post by Matic Robots on X.

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Sources

• @maticrobots (Matic Robots, official) on X
• @DeadManRolln (Zach McManus, Neuralink patient #22) on X, Oct. 20
• Neuralink, A Year of Telepathy
• Neuralink updates
• Matic Robots

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