Energy harvesting implantable health monitoring solutions

DARPA is seeking information regarding revolutionary solutions for energy harvesting, or drawing energy in form of current from a natural source, in support of long-lasting, implantable medical devices. This Request for Information (RFI) is a preliminary step to identify potential partners capable of delivering disruptive innovation in this space.

We are seeking concepts with the potential to fundamentally change the landscape of implantable device powering and are open to a wide range of technical approaches capable of achieving long-term self-sustaining power harvesting/generation to enable safe, reliable, long-lived implanted medical devices. We encourage submissions detailing novel and ambitious concepts aligned with high-impact, transformative research capable of achieving leap-forward innovation within self-powered energy harvesting medical devices.