Approaches to large scale neural recording by chronic implants for mobile BCIs

Abstract

The development of techniques for reading information from the brain to translate e.g. movement intentions to control of robotic hands and operating simple tablet-base communication devices by tetraplegic devices is an example of a contemporary BCI operating at a system level of neuro-technology innovation. At the same time, the BCI field could be viewed still at infancy, with both challenges and opportunities for development of considerably more advanced BCIs. For example, the physical cabling of neural sensors such as microelectrode arrays to external electronics is now witnessing a transition to wireless sensors thereby enabling higher degree of mobility of subjects.