Elon Musk now wants to build a 'cyborg dragon'

IANS  |  San Francisco 

It appears that SpaceXs "Dragon capsule" is set to be powered by (AI) and may offer a human-brain interface via Neuralink, a tweet by has suggested.

"Oh btw I'm building a cyborg dragon," the tech mogul tweeted late on Wednesday.

Musk might just bring astronauts with to space, Inverse reported.

There's only one thing named "Dragon" in all of Musk's companies -- 'Dragon' spacecraft -- and it goes back and forth to the (ISS).

is currently aiming to build the Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR, which will be used to explore Mars -- a goal that hopes to accomplish by 2022.

BFR would be so large that it would have to be transported on an ocean-going barge to Cape Canaveral, Florida, via the

According to Musk, SpaceX's huge new rocket would be nearly 350 feet tall and span 30 feet in diameter.

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First Published: Thu, April 26 2018. 16:00 IST