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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
(spectrum.ieee.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
“he spun off the company Second Sight with three cofounders in 1998”
The rest of the sentence from your quote. The company that put these implants into people was, from what I understand, indeed for profit.
Kind of hard to operate a company without also making money doing so. The two are not mutually exclusive to each other.