He still moved the unplugged joystick, however. The poor monkey has no idea that he’s now a cyborg. Musk previously demoed a brain implant in a pig, called Gertrude, at an event in September.

Elon Musk claims one of his companies has implanted a device into a monkey’s brain, and hopes to make it play “mind pong” with another cyborg monkey. The billionaire, who owns a variety of ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has created a cyborg monkey capable of playing video games with its mind using brain-reading implants. The technology could someday be used to download memories into robots ...

Two very small computer chips, developed by Mr Musk’s AI company, Neuralink, were implanted on each side of the monkey’s brain and allowed the nine-year-old macaque named Pager, to play a game ...

The science is, without a doubt, absolutely incredible. The idea that a monkey can control a robotic arm, simply through his thoughts, is something that seemed ripped out of those terrible SciFi ...

I, for one, welcome our new cyborg monkey overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted Internet personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their hydroponic banana gardens.

Elon Musk might have the answer for us soon, as he claims one of his companies has implanted a device into a monkey's brain in the hopes of making it play "mind pong" with another cyborg monkey to ...