Researchers have identified a new way of mapping ‘phosphenes’ – the visual perception of the bright flashes we see when no light is entering the eye – to improve the outcome of surgery for patients ...

A bionic prosthetic eye that speaks the language of your brain On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. With some brute force testing, though, one scientist has worked out ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- A degenerative eye disease slowly robbed Roger Pontz of his vision. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as a teenager, Pontz has been almost completely blind for years. Now, thanks to ...

Neuralink, the neurotechnology company co-founded by Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, has joined a clinical trial aimed at restoring vision with full or partial blindness through visual prostheses, ...

Nowhere is this convergence more evident than in the emerging field of sensory augmentation, where artificial intelligence ...

A team of Engineers from Stanford, and Glasgow, Scotland, have made some incredible advances on their earlier designs for a photovoltaic bionic eye. Their new paper, published in Nature Communications ...

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink Corp. is collaborating with researchers in California and Spain on a clinical trial to study visual prosthetics. Neuralink’s participation in the trial was ...