Increasing the capacity of advanced neural interfaces to engage more than one million neurons in parallel

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through its Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program is working on Brain-Computer Interfaces and  seeks to translate neurochemical signals into binary code (MedCityNews).

The NESD program looks ahead to a future in which advanced neural devices offer improved fidelity, resolution, and precision sensory interface for therapeutic applications. By increasing the capacity of advanced neural interfaces to engage more than one million neurons in parallel, NESD aims to enable rich two-way communication with the brain at a scale that will help deepen our understanding of that organ’s underlying biology, complexity, and function.

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BCI with fully Implantable Devices - DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program aims to develop an implantable neural interface able to provide unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world. The interface would serve as a translator, converting between the electrochemical language used by neurons in the brain and the ones and zeros that constitute the language of information technology.

The goal is to achieve this communications link in a biocompatible device no larger than one cubic centimeter in size, roughly the volume of two nickels stacked back to back.

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