Are the days of Terminator nearly upon us? Neuralink, Elon Musk’s human brain chip implant company, has started recruitment for human clinical trials

"We're extremely excited about this next chapter at Neuralink," the company wrote at the time on X, the Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

In the shorter term, Musk said Neuralink could help restore body movement and when combined with Tesla’s robotics could make the “Luke Skywalker solution” a reality.

Wired writes that the documents show a male monkey was euthanized in March 2020 “after his cranial implant became loose,” with the necropsy revealing “the failure of this implant can be considered purely mechanical and not exacerbated by infection.

Brain chips will be implanted into human brains with the intention of giving people with paralysis mobility via their thoughts.

Test monkeys at Elon Musk’s controversial biotech startup Neuralink died due to a number of complications from brain chip implant procedures, counter to the claims made by the multi-billionaire, a new report claimed.