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‘Artificial Eye’ Appeared
It has a structure that mimics the human eye, but is installed with up to 460 million optical sensors per square centimeter.
Materials scientist Zhiyong Fan and a team of engineers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology developed an artificial eye based on the structure of the human eye.
Inside the artificial eye, an artificial retina with a nano-sized optical sensor will be responsible for measuring the amount of light transmitted through the lens placed in front of the artificial eye. The wires attached to the back of the artificial retina play the role of the optic nerve in the eye, sending signals that the sensor receives to the external circuit board.
Although this artificial eye does not have a telephoto or night vision function, the team has stated that it can perform better functions than the human eye.
Specifically, while humans respond to changes in light at a rapid rate of 40 to 150ms, the artificial eye is able to react faster than this in about 30 to 40ms, even under light conditions. light dim. Another characteristic of the artificial eye is that the artificial retina has the same arch shape as a human retina, but it cannot create the 150-degree visual field that humans possess, instead being only 100 degrees…
