Bionic eyes: no longer science fiction

November 17th, 2020

nzoptics.co.nz, Other, 16/11/2020, Heather Douglas and Lesley Springall
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in bionic eyes’, with companies in different parts of the world using different approaches and technologies to develop prostheses to give blind and visually-impaired people a sense of sight’ or, better still, some useable vision. […] BVT is a collaboration between Australian medical science and technology research organisations, including the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), the Bionics Institute, CSIRO’s Data61, the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University.