Blind patients are to be given bionic eyes on the NHS for the first time after a groundbreaking trial restored the sight of those taking part. Initially, doctors will fit a camera device called Argus ...

Scientists have taken an important step towards helping visually impaired people lead independent lives after a bionic eye gave a blind Australian woman partial sight. Dianne Ashworth, who has severe ...

So far ‘bionic eyes’ have only been seen in sci-fi films such as The Terminator. In that movie Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a robot with enhanced vision capable of scanning and analysing its ...

Existing bionic eye systems have a chip fitted to a person's retina, which connects wirelessly to a camera fitted to glasses Once upon a time there were some unusual Australian sheep, with ...

A bionic eye is set to be implanted into humans for the first time next year SCIENTISTS are one step closer to developing a bionic eye that will allow blind people to see using a microchip linked to ...

The technique which surgeons say 'is straight out of science fiction’ could offer hope to thousands of blind people. Surgeons at Moorfields Eye Hospital in central London implanted an electronic ...

Blind patients to get bionic eyes in 2017: NHS to pay for 10 people to be fitted with eyes THE NHS will pay for 10 people with an inherited form of blindness to be fitted with "bionic eye" implants.

THIS bionic eye could give humans night vision and quicker reaction times in the future, according to new research. Scientists have created a proof-of-concept version of the eye that’s even more ...

Australian researchers have built a bionic eye implant to help blind people see (Getty / University of Sydney) A recent scientific breakthrough in bionic eye technology could give sight to millions of ...

The world as seen by someone fitted with a bionic eye has been recreated for the first time by scientists to help people decide if they want the device. Researchers at The University of Washington ...