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Restoring vision with bionic eyes: it is no longer science fiction
The human brain has approximately 100 billion nerve cells or neurons
Dr. Michael Beyeler will interact with your brain through bionic vision. Let’s find out why Dr. Michael compares his work with a “less creepy” version of the brain implants in the movie “Black Mirror.”
The bionic vision may sound like science fiction, but Dr. Michael Beyeler is working to make this come true in the sight of thousands of blind people throughout the world.
Dr. Beyeler of Swiss origins is finishing his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington before moving to the University of California at Santa Barbara to direct the newly created Bionic Vision Lab in the Departments of Computer Science and Psychology and Brain.
Your work will restore the vision of the blind. This excerpt edited and condensed by Dr. Michael Beyeler will give us an overview of his achievements today.
Let’s take a look to have an overview of the field of “neuronal engineering” that will lead to a bionic vision in the future.
Neuroengineering is an emerging interdisciplinary field that aims to design devices that can interact…
