Forbes April 13, 2021
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is yet again making waves in both the mainstream media and scientific community. The latest demonstration by the cutting-edge technology company entails Pager, a nine-year-old Macaque monkey playing “MindPong.” However, Pager isn’t just a regular monkey—rather, he’s had a Neuralink interface implanted in him, allowing him to play the game literally with only his mind (hence, MindPong).
Neuralink’s brain-machine interface is by no means simple technology. The company is attempting to develop “a fully-implanted, wireless, high-channel count brain-machine interface (BMI) with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease.”
The video demonstration starts off relatively simply, with Pager playing with a joystick...
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