Robot Surrogate Tests Artificial Retina Vision for the Blind
The CYCLOPS mobile robotic platform is designed to be used as a surrogate for blind persons in the testing of visual prostheses. (Caltech/Wolfgang Fink, Mark Tarbell)Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the “visual” experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina. An artificial retina consists of a silicon chip studded with a varying number of elect
