US Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s neuroscience company Neuralink on August 28, 2020 unveiled a pig named Gertrude.
- The pig has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, showing off an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.
- The project aims to implant wireless brain-computer interfaces that include thousands of electrodes in the most complex human organ to help cure neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s, dementia and spinal cord injuries and ultimately fuse humankind with artificial intelligence.
- Neuralink has sought approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for the project, which has seen scientists develop a tiny implant with more than 3,000 electrodes, attached to flexible threads measuring about the tenth of the size of a hair, and capable of monitoring around 1,000 neurons.
Source: BBC
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