15 Mar 2021

The race to use thought control to merge humans with robots

From Lately, 10:45 pm on 15 March 2021

A research company, Neuralink, which is owned by Billionaire Elon Musk, claims to have found a way to help tetraplegics use thought control to move robotic limbs, It's called Brain-Machine Interface technology and Elon Musk is calling it a "sort of symbiosis" between humans and artificial intelligence. Otago University's Associate Professor Alistair Knott is a specialist in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

concept image of colored sections of a male human brain.

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