{"id":26354,"date":"2016-06-02T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/neural-dust-ultra-small-brain-interfaces-is-being-used-to-make-cyborg-insects"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:41:13","slug":"neural-dust-ultra-small-brain-interfaces-is-being-used-to-make-cyborg-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/neural-dust-ultra-small-brain-interfaces-is-being-used-to-make-cyborg-insects","title":{"rendered":"Neural Dust \u2014 ultra small brain interfaces \u2014 is being used to make cyborg insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-dust-ultra-small-brain-interfaces-is-being-used-to-make-cyborg-insects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vlsisymposium.org\/plenary-rump-sessions\/#1460130601278-714ef35f-ed28\" target=\"blank\">As the computation and communication circuits we build radically miniaturize (i.e. become so low power that 1 picoJoule is sufficient<\/a> to bang out a bit of information over a wireless transceiver; become so small that 500 square microns of thinned CMOS can hold a reasonable sensor front-end and digital engine), the barrier to introducing these types of interfaces into organisms will get pretty low. Put another way, the rapid pace of computation and communication miniaturization is swiftly blurring the line between the technological base that created us and the technological based we\u2019ve created. Michel Maharbiz, University of California, Berkeley, is giving an overview (june 16, 2016) of recent work in his lab that touches on this concern. Most of the talk will cover their ongoing exploration of the remote control of insects in free flight via implantable radio-equipped miniature neural stimulating systems.; recent results with neural interfaces and extreme miniaturization directions will be discussed. If time permits, he will show recent results building extremely small neural interfaces they call \u201cneural dust,\u201d work done in collaboration with the Carmena, Alon and Rabaey labs.<\/p>\n<p>Radical miniaturization has created the ability to introduce a synthetic neural interface into a complex, multicellular organism, as exemplified by the creation of a \u201ccyborg insect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rapid pace of computation and communication miniaturization is swiftly blurring the line between technological base we\u2019ve created and the technological base that created us,\u201d explained Dr. Maharbiz. \u201cThese combined trends of extreme miniaturization and advanced neural interfaces have enabled us to explore the remote control of insects in free flight via implantable radio-equipped miniature neural stimulating systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/06\/neural-dust-ultra-small-brain.html?m=1\">http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/06\/neural-dust-ultra-small-brain.html?m=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the computation and communication circuits we build radically miniaturize (i.e. become so low power that 1 picoJoule is sufficient to bang out a bit of information over a wireless transceiver; become so small that 500 square microns of thinned CMOS can hold a reasonable sensor front-end and digital engine), the barrier to introducing these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1694,1497,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-electronics","category-energy","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50330,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354\/revisions\/50330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}