Scientists are still stunned by Elon Musk's plan to enable blind people to see, using his Neurolink's Brain Computer Interface chip dubbed Blindsight.
Neurolink has already partnered with top Spanish scientists and US Santa Barbara to make a device called Blindsight, a smart Bionic Eye powered by brain implants and AI.
Blindsight got the approval of the US Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA), though there have been no human trials.
Musk confided that Neurolink will perform its first human implant of Blindsight at the course of 2025.
Will Neurolink's Blindsight allow Blind People to see?
Blindsight is designed to enable people with total visual impairment, as a result of damaged optic nerve but with intact visual cortex, to see.
This is enhanced by bypassing the optic nerve and stimulating the visual cortex to create a visual perception.
Visual cortex is part of the brain that receives, integrates and processes visual information relayed from the retina.
Blindsight functions like the optic nerve and does it's function of transmitting visual information from the retina to the brain.
Neurolink's Blindsight implants a microelectrode array into the visual cortex part of the human brain.
The array then stimulates neurons, which then enables an individual with visual impairment to see.
In 2024, Elon Musk wrote on X that Blindsight will allow people who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see provided their visual cortex is intact. It will even permit those who were born blind to see for the first time.
"Eventually, it has the potential [to] be better than natural vision and enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like [Star Trek's character] Geordi La Forge," Musk wrote.
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