Neural Dust and Neural Interfaces

A major technological hurdle in neuroprosthetics is the lack of an implantable neural interface system that remains viable for a lifetime. This talk will discuss the basics of extracellular neural recording, discuss the state of the art in cortical neural recording and introduce Neural Dust, a concept developed with Elad Alon, Jose Carmena and Jan Rabaey, which aims to develop a tetherless method to remotely record action potentials from the mammalian cortex.