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The world's first real cyborg technology through an electronic chip combining living and non-living components has been developed by scientists from Columbia University, according to HNGN.

This "cyborg chip" is made up of "a solid-state complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit with an artificial lipid bilayer membrane made of ATP-powered ion pumps," explains the Daily Mail.

This biochip has the ability to experience taste and smell, in spite of its electronic components. "In combining a biological electronic device with CMOS, we will be able to create new systems not possible with either technology alone," Ken Shepard, lead researcher of the breakthrough technology, said in a public statement. "We are excited at the prospect of expanding the palette of active devices that will have new functions, such as harvesting energy from ATP, as was done here, or recognizing specific molecules, giving chips the potential to taste and smell."

This capacity to replicate taste and smell makes the biochip different from other cyborg technologies. Hence, the "Cyborg Rose," integrating "electronic parts and plant systems into an electronic circuit", is an instance.

Neil Harbisson was the first "legally recognized cyborg" after an antenna was implanted into his skull was another cyborg.