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Elon Musk's cyber pig Gertrude: how does it work?

Elon Musk is creating cyber pigs -  a pig called Gertrude has been implanted with a coin-sized ...

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19.28 31 Aug 2020


Elon Musk's cyber pig Gertrude: how does it work?


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19.28 31 Aug 2020


Elon Musk is creating cyber pigs -  a pig called Gertrude has been implanted with a coin-sized computer chip and that's the first steps towards a brain-computer interface.

The goal: to help people - but how?

Newstalk's technology correpondent Jess Kelly explained to Kieran Cuddihy what Musk wants to do with that and how it all works.


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