Billionaire Elon Musk’s Neuralink is yet to begin human trials. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied the company’s request to test its brain-computer interface in humans. The FDA attributed its refusal to safety concerns. The main safety concerns relate to the device’s lithium battery, the potential for tiny...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is at the center of a U.S. Department of Transportation investigation over the potentially illegal movement of dangerous pathogens. The reason for the investigation was a letter from the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine and the animal rights group. The authors said they received various documents that...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which develops brain implants, is under federal investigation for potential animal rights violations. The reason was complaints from staff that animal testing was carried out in a hurry, resulting in unnecessary suffering and death. The investigation is being conducted by the US Department of Agriculture at the...
At an event called “Show and Tell”, which took place yesterday in the US, Elon Musk announced that his company Neuralink could implant its chip in a person’s head within the next six months. Musk said at the event that the company has submitted much of the paperwork required for...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink responded to human rights claims regarding animal cruelty. Recent articles have raised questions about the use of Neuralink in research animals at the University of California, Davis Primate Center. It is important to note that these accusations come from people who oppose any use of animals in...
As Elon Musk’s Neuralink company prepares to start experimenting with humans, it has come under attack from animal rights activists. And not only verbally. A complaint has been filed against Neuralink. The company is accused of animal abuse. More specifically, the plaintiff alleges that Neuralink subjected monkeys to “extraordinary suffering”...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a brain-computer interface technology company, is looking for a director of clinical trials. This is confirmation that the company will soon be able to fulfill its original goal of embedding a chip in the human brain. The job description says the new head of clinical trials will...
Elon Musk’s company Neuralink may begin experiments with human participation as early as next year. Recall that Neuralink, formed several years ago, is engaged in the creation of technologies for the brain-computer interface. In the spring of this year, the company showed the first vivid and very impressive example of...
Elon Musk, who is the founder of Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink, posted a video on his Twitter page showing a monkey playing the famous game Pong with his mind. A nine-year-old monkey was implanted with the Neuralink neurochip a month and a half before this video was recorded. Initially, the...
