An artificially-intelligent cornea with tactile sensation enables sensory expansion and interaction

This paper introduces an artificially intelligent cornea that replicates the functions of a natural human cornea, including protection, tactile perception, and light refraction, while also providing sensory expansion and interactive capabilities. This is achieved through an artificial corneal reflex arc that processes mechanical and light information and regulates light transmission. Digitally aligned zinc tin oxide (ZTO) semiconductor fabric patterns serve as the artificial synapse, offering non-toxicity, low cost, and high optical properties. Tunable synaptic plasticity in the ZTO fibers allows for applications like encrypted communication and associative learning. The research offers new strategies for synaptic plasticity tuning and visual neuroprosthetics design.

Shangda Qu, Lin Sun, Song Zhang, Jiaqi Liu, Yue Li, Junchi Liu, Wentao Xu