Plugging Electronics Into Minds: Recent Trends and Advances in Neural Interface Microsystems

Abstract

Despite rapid advancements in our electronics industry, connecting our minds to machines (e.g., robots and computers) through brain-machine interface (BMI) technologies remains an unfulfilled human ambition. Voice-free interaction with unplugged holographic displays, controlling a computer mouse hands free, downloading our minds onto artificial intelligence chips, and uploading knowledge or skills into our brain still reside in the realm of research or imagination.