Fiber optics, rather than wires, because of the environment of the implant.

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Engineering researchers at the University of NSW Sydney have been granted almost $500,000 by the US Navy to develop chips that enable ‘neural interfacing’, or direct communication between brains and machines.

For now one-way communication is the goal, but the researchers hope to enable two-way communication for feedback from artificial limbs or more complex input from computers.

The team has already developed what they call “optrodes” – pixel-like sensors on a chip that pick up the brain’s electrical signals.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/us-navy-taps-unsw-to-develop-brain-machine-interface-511667