Elon Musk's robot surgeon will sew electrodes into human brains, starting in 2020

Elon Musk’s super-secretive startup Neuralink has finally revealed where it’s at on the whole human-machine mind-meld project, and if the phrase "Elon Musk says a monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain" is on your sci-fi apocalypse bingo card, we have good news for you. A livestreamed presentation on Tuesday evening U.S. time revealed that the company’s tech involves incredibly fine “threads”, covered in electrodes, inserted into the brain by a robot surgeon and implanted next to neurons and synapses. The threads then record the information being transmitted onto a tiny sensor called the N1. Read more...More about Elon Musk, Neural Lace, Neuralink, Brain Machine Interface, and Science