The race to use thought control to merge humans with robots

Published: March 15, 2021, 9:45 a.m.

A research company, Neuralink, which is owned by Billionaire Elon Musk, claims to have found a way to help tetraplegics use thought control to move robotic limbs, It's called Brain-Machine Interface technology and Elon Musk is calling it a "sort of symbiosis" between humans and artificial intelligence. Otago University's Associate Professor Alistair Knott is a specialist in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.