The Computer Chip Curing Blindness
Retinal prosthesis chip restores vision images in blind patients for first time
“Nobody had previously ever been able to restore a form vision image in the mind's eye of a blind patient in this way.”
A retinal prosthesis device has demonstrated proof-of-concept vision restoration in blind patients, though current limitations include narrow field of view and black-and-white output only. Researchers see a roadmap to add grayscale depth and color. This is a neurotech/medical device story with no direct AI industry signal.