Podcast: A synthetic eye that 'sees' like a human

Podcast: A synthetic eye that 'sees' like a human

Synthetic eye that ‘sees’ like a human

Electronic engineer Zhiyong Fan and his colleagues have built a biomimetic eye with a hemispherical retina made of perovskite nanowires. The shape gives the eye better image-sensing characteristics than a flat light sensor, and makes it appear more human. Electronic engineer Zhiyong Fan tells the Nature Podcast how he went from admiring robots on Star Trek to taking a step closer to making them a reality.

Nature Podcast | 22 min listen
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