Restoring lost senses: one technology for both artificial vision and touch

Patients with untreatable conditions such as sight loss or loss of motor-function could be closer to a viable technology for restoring their lost sense, within a faster time frame. This is due to the discovery that advanced brain interfacing technology used for both touch and vision prostheses, is in fact almost the same, despite being developed completely separately for more than 50 years. The comprehensive review in which this discovery has first been made, was published in Nature Reviews Bioengineering, and was led by Giacomo Valle, Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden.

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