His start-up Neuralink applied to launch human trials ... Gertrude was one of three pigs in pens that took part in Friday's webcast demo. She took a while to get going, but when she ate and ...

The company has tried its implants in pigs, sheep and monkeys, but Arbaugh was the first human to receive the device, called ...

Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface. Officials are still ...

Reports have highlighted the deaths of over 1,500 animals — sheep, pigs, and monkeys — in Neuralink’s experiments, raising questions about the rush in surgical procedures and the ethical ...

and last year Neuralink unveiled a pig called Gertrude, which had a chip implanted that allowed neural activity in her snout to be transmitted and recorded as she rooted for food. Chips have also ...

The company has also run trials in pigs and claimed that monkeys can play a basic version of the video game Pong. Neuralink was given permission to test the chip on humans by the Food and Drug ...

On August 28, Musk livestreamed a demo of a working Neuralink device implanted in the brain of a pig named Gertrude. The device was embedded in Gertrude's skull, with wires fanning out into her ...

and while Neuralink is developing its underlying technology its design was crafted by Woke Studios. In 2020, the company showed off one of its chips working in a pig named Gertrude during a live demo.