ABSTRACT
Research in neural prosthesis has progressed rapidly in recent years, fueled by the unique interdisciplinary efforts fusing engineering, medicine, and biology. This interdisciplinary research requires addressing aspects of humanity and societal impacts, technical challenges and barriers, targeting a wide range of applications. These applications span understanding highly complex biological systems to treating restoring/repairing the lost biological functions, such as deafness, blindness, and paralysis, to building a humanmachine interface for performance enhancement (super-person). Neural prosthetic systems will offer viable solutions to neurodisorder diseases, which potentially affect a very large population of people worldwide, and thus occupy the largest market share in healthcare.
