{"id":107464,"date":"2020-05-22T13:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-new-bionic-eye-could-give-robots-and-the-blind-20-20-vision"},"modified":"2020-05-23T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:01:11","slug":"a-new-bionic-eye-could-give-robots-and-the-blind-20-20-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-new-bionic-eye-could-give-robots-and-the-blind-20-20-vision","title":{"rendered":"A New Bionic Eye Could Give Robots and the Blind 20\/20 Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-bionic-eye-could-give-robots-and-the-blind-20-20-vision3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good news.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a paper published last week in Nature, though, researchers from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology devised a way to build photosensors directly into a hemispherical artificial retina. This enabled them to create a device that can mimic the wide field of view, responsiveness, and resolution of the human eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe structural mimicry of Gu and colleagues\u2019 artificial eye is certainly impressive, but what makes it truly stand out from previously reported devices is that many of its sensory capabilities compare favorably with those of its natural counterpart,\u201d writes Hongrui Jiang, an engineer at the University of Wisconsin Madison, in a perspective in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Key to the breakthrough was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/new-artificial-eye-mimics-a-retinas-natural-curve\/\"> an ingenious way of implanting photosensors<\/a> into a dome-shaped artificial retina. The team created a hemisphere of aluminum oxide peppered with densely-packed nanoscale pores. They then used vapor deposition to grow nanowires inside these pores made from perovskite, a type of photosensitive compound used in solar cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news. In a paper published last week in Nature, though, researchers from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology devised a way to build photosensors directly into a hemispherical artificial retina. This enabled them to create a device that can mimic the wide field of view, responsiveness, and resolution of the human eye. \u201cThe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,4,6,1633,17,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107500,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107464\/revisions\/107500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}