Contemplating ways we can help patients who are visually impaired

 In the event that the exhibitions are fruitful, he said the group could start working with human patients within two years. Most promptly, we're contemplating ways we can help patients who are visually impaired," Robinson said. "In people who have lost the capacity to see, researchers have demonstrated that invigorating pieces of the cerebrum related with vision can give those patients a feeling of vision, despite the fact that their eyes at this point don't work." 

The MOANA group incorporates 15 rf engineer jobs from Rice, Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, Duke University, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale's John B. Penetrate Laboratory.  The undertaking is financed through DARPA's Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program.

Wireless communication directly between brains is one step closer to reality thanks to $8 million in Department of Defense follow-up funding for Rice University neuro engineers. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funded the team's proof-of-principle research toward a wireless brain link in 2018, has asked for a preclinical demonstration of the technology that could set the stage for human tests as early as 2022.