To help people who suffer from blindness of any form, the team at the Monash University in Australia have built a system through which people would be able to see again.

Many researches have been conducted around the world and have tried to find a cure the individuals suffering from blindness, but no bionic solutions found so far have yet not been able to help blind individuals on a larger scale. The team of researchers at Monash University, have been able to create a bionic eye dubbed ‘Gennaris bionic vision system’, a system which has been under development for around a decade now. This system created works by bypassing damaged optic nerves to allow signals to be transmitted from the retina to the vision center of the brain.

For this to work, the user would have to wear a custom-designed headgear which would be having a camera and a wireless transmitter installed. A set of 9mm tiles are implanted in the brain which receives the signals from the aforementioned receiver. Arthur Lowery, a professor at the Monash University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, said, “Our design creates a visual pattern from combinations of up to 172 spots of light (phosphenes) which provides information for the individual to navigate indoor and outdoor environments, and recognize the presence of people and objects around them.”

In addition, researchers are now looking forward to make in advance in the system to help people with untreatable neurological conditions like limp paralysis, quadriplegia. This system would aid those who have lost their vision and would help them to view and experience new things through the bionic eye. Researchers have seen successful results in sheep with minimal side effects where it was safely implanted into their brains. They are now preparing to take it to the next level for its first-ever human clinical trial, which is expected to be conducted in Melbourne.