Over a year later, Musk’s Neuralink still 6 months from human trials

Elon Musk hosted an update from his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink. Most of the update involved various researchers at the company providing overviews of the specific areas of technology development they were working on. There wasn’t anything dramatically new in the tech compared to the company’s 2020 update. But probably the most striking thing is that the prior update indicated that Neuralink was getting close to human testing. There are some indications of evolutionary progress, but there are no indications that it’s close to a finalized design that’s ready for a Food and Drug Administration submission. The company is developing a surgical robot to make that process safe and consistent. This time, there was both an on-stage demo of the hardware and a fair bit of time spent . . .