U-M Team Develops StiMote to Help Restore Vision
The highly collaborative project will leverage many tiny sensing computers, called “motes,” to communicate with the visual cortex of the brain.
An interdisciplinary team of experts across U-M is developing wireless neural stimulators for restoring vision. The team, which includes Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty David Blaauw, Kensall D. Wise Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and Biomedical Engineering faculty Cindy Chestek, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics, and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; and James Weiland, Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, calls the stimulation devices StiMotes, a nod to the world’s smallest computer, known as the Michigan Micro Mote (M3). Read the entire story.