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Releases and statements, newest first. Follow them by RSS. Journalists can reach the communications team at press@kiroshi.org.

This year

2026.10.27
Continuity
Continuity has now helped more than 10,000 people with SEIRAN 2 implants
2026.10.14
Standards
Draft standard on private provenance for ocular capture opens for public comment
2026.10.08
World Sight Day
World Sight Day: 236 schools in Nepal and Bangladesh screened in a single day
2026.09.15
Grants
Grants for implant aftercare clinics: 2027 round now open
2026.07.30
Annual report
Annual report 2025–26: the year in figures, and a change in how we count outcomes
2026.07.06
Fellowships
Twelve Kiroshi Fellows from eight countries begin their year
2026.06.26
Governance
Professor Achieng Otieno elected chair of the Board of Councillors
2026.03.12
Sight restoration
One hundred thousand cataract operations in western Kenya
2026.01.19
Implant safety
A free aftercare clinic for implant wearers opens in Chicago

Archive

2025.12.03
Grants
We have ended a screening grant after finding false reports
2025.11.20
Statement
Statement on Blackwall’s evaluation of SHIKAI 4
2025.08.19
Shared Sight
Shared Sight passes 60,000 donors, and publishes its first audit
2025.07.14
Implant safety
An aftercare clinic for implant wearers opens in Cebu
2025.04.21
Sight restoration
¥612 million for five more years of cataract surgery in western Kenya
2025.04.07
Fellowships
Twelve Kiroshi Fellows begin their year in Tokyo, Nairobi and Lalitpur
2025.03.24
Research
KF-LV 1.0: a test set for the places assistive devices fail

Archive

2024.12.09
Partnership
Firmware for discontinued implants to be preserved with Frothly’s Lazarus archive
2024.09.24
Standards
KF-OS 2, the bystander privacy standard, reaches version 1.0
2024.06.17
Research
The support gap: what happens when an implant’s maker stops supporting it
2024.03.18
Implant safety
Independent Implant Register publishes its eighth annual report
2024.02.12
Statement
We have asked Kiroshi Opticals to keep its position on the Turing Registry under review

Archive

2023.10.30
Statement
Kiroshi Opticals agrees to independent evaluation of its perception models
2023.07.03
Standards
KF-OS 1 version 2.1: support plans before sale, and service without a server
2023.05.22
Mieru
Mieru screens one million people in a year for the first time
2023.03.20
Implant safety
External review finds the Implant Register timely, but wearers in Kenya and the Philippines under-served

Archive

2022.11.01
Shared Sight
Shared Sight: implant wearers can now donate anonymised vision data to research
2022.06.01
People
Dr Okabe Sena appointed Executive Director

Archive

2021.09.27
Partnership
The Foundation and Frothly begin a research partnership on optical implants