This Tiny Chip Can Cure Blindness
A subretinal chip with laser glasses restores vision by bypassing dead photoreceptors
“You can think of it like a cochlear implant for the eye.”
A company is developing the Prima retinal prosthesis, a chip implanted under the retina that works with laser-projecting glasses to stimulate remaining retinal cells and restore vision in blind patients. While technically interesting as a neural interface device, this content has minimal AI signal and is primarily a medical hardware story. It is not relevant to AI conference intelligence.