The invention comprises a novel cyber-organic motor-neural brain-computer interface for the purpose of extracting intended and or actual movement from a human or animal. The interface converts motor-neural signals to intended contraction data of the recipient muscle. This is accomplished using a pipeline of organic, mechanic and electronic components each responsible for translating the neural signals to intermediate representations that are eventually converted to a digital or analog signal describing the contraction value encoded in the original neural signal. The command to contract a muscle begins in the central nervous system 1. It is transmitted through multiple motor neurons 2 and their axons 3, each innervating multiple muscle fibers of the organic component 4. Each fiber contracts upon receiving an action potential, resulting in a mechanical signal. This signal is transmitted to the compliant mechanical component 5, which converts the mechanical signal to an analog electrical signal of proportional intensity.
