Tag: medical technology

Future Tech • October 23, 2026

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Could Restore Sight to the Blind. Scientists Say It’s Not That Simple.

Elon Musk wants to give blind people their sight back. Eventually, he wants to give them something better than ordinary human vision: the ability to perceive infrared, ultraviolet and even information collected by radar. His company Neuralink is developing a brain implant called Blindsight that would bypass the eyes and deliver electrical signals directly to […]

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Future Tech • June 2, 2026

Light-Powered Nanorobots Can Hunt, Capture, and Move Bacteria

Tiny robots, big sci-fi energy. Researchers at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany have demonstrated light-driven nanorobots smaller than one micrometer that can locate, capture, transport, and release bacteria in liquid environments. That sounds like the opening scene of a very nerdy medical thriller, but the work is real. Published in Nature Communications, the study shows how […]

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