"Bionic eyes" refers to artificial eyes that are designed to help individuals who have vision problems or blindness. These eyes are created using advanced technology and can perform functions similar to human eyes, such as allowing people to see, recognize objects, and even read text.
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The
Google bionic eye patent originally filed in 2014 and published Thursday describes a device that could correct vision without putting contacts in or an alternative surgery.
The software could someday be used in driverless cars or
bionic eyes for the blind.
This may be fiction, and the year 2460 at that, but today's pioneers
of bionic eye technology believe they can turn a little of the fantasy into reality some time in the next century.
Machine learning algorithms can help robots learn to better navigate space (think self driving cars), and can be incorporated into robotic devices such
as bionic eyes.
This past spring the effort reached a crucial milestone, when European regulators approved the first commercially
available bionic eye.
Around the world, more than 20 research teams are racing to develop commercially
viable bionic eyes.
By combining binocular vision with structured light — and taking advantage of artificial intelligence, which we'll come to in a moment — Honor is
creating bionic eyes: cameras that see in 3D with incredible accuracy and reliability.
The «neurochip,» a silicon rectangle about 4 centimeters wide immersed in a petri dish, may be the forerunner
of bionic eyes or other medical devices engineered from combinations of silicon and living neurons.
Obviously the assistant that disallowed Lacazette's strike has
a bionic eye.
There's also the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, or, as Bhavsar and others in ophthalmology like to call it,
the bionic eye.
Sceptics said
a bionic eye was impossible.
Next year, a blind person in Australia will be the first to receive «
bionic eyes» that bypass most of the visual system entirely.
«You don't need an eyeball at all,» says Arthur Lowery at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria, who is developing
the bionic eye.
On the positive side, we are on the cusp of making radical upgrades to our bodies, using everything from young blood to brain implants (see «
Bionic eye will send images direct to the brain to restore sight «-RRB-.
Bionic Vision Australia is a national consortium of researchers working together to develop
a bionic eye to restore vision to people with retinitis pigmentosa and age - related macular degeneration.
For the first time in a decade, a Minnesota man was able to see his wife of 45 years thanks to
a bionic eye implant.
I swear he has
bionic eyes to spot these tiny Seahorse creatures in the water!
The bionic eye implant would sense when the wearer is trying to see something and adjust the wearer's vision using technologies such as micro mirrors, liquid crystals and tiny micro-fluidic pumps.
Google has filed a patent for what appears to be an injectable technology for
a bionic eye.