{"id":149092,"date":"2022-10-29T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/engineers-light-the-way-to-nerve-operated-prosthetics-of-the-future"},"modified":"2022-10-29T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:24:19","slug":"engineers-light-the-way-to-nerve-operated-prosthetics-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/engineers-light-the-way-to-nerve-operated-prosthetics-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Engineers light the way to nerve-operated prosthetics of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-light-the-way-to-nerve-operated-prosthetics-of-the-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biomedical and electrical engineers at UNSW Sydney have developed a new way to measure neural activity using light\u2014rather than electricity\u2014which could lead to a complete reimagining of medical technologies like nerve-operated prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Fran\u00e7ois Ladouceur, with UNSW\u2019s School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, says the multi-disciplinary team has just demonstrated in the lab what it proved theoretically shortly before the pandemic: that sensors built using liquid crystal and integrated optics technologies\u2014dubbed \u201coptrodes\u201d\u2014can register nerve impulses in a living animal body.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do these optrodes perform just as well as conventional electrodes\u2014that use electricity to detect a nerve impulse\u2014but they also address \u201cvery thorny issues that competing technologies cannot address,\u201d says Prof. Ladouceur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biomedical and electrical engineers at UNSW Sydney have developed a new way to measure neural activity using light\u2014rather than electricity\u2014which could lead to a complete reimagining of medical technologies like nerve-operated prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces. Professor Fran\u00e7ois Ladouceur, with UNSW\u2019s School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, says the multi-disciplinary team has just demonstrated in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}