SCIENTISTS have created an artificial eye that could provide vision for humanoid robots, or perhaps in the future function as a bionic eye for those who are visually impaired, according to researchers.

A group of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers built the ElectroChemical Eye, known as EC-Eye, which has potential.

The artificial eye uses a lens to focus light onto a dense array of light-sensitive nanowires in order to mimic a human iris and retina. Information passes through the wires, which act like the brain’s visual cortex, to a computer for processing.

“Our brains acquire more than 80 percent of information about our surroundings via our eyes,” the researchers wrote in their paper, which was published last week in Nature.(SD-Agencies)