New experiences at their fingertips — Harvard Gazette

China develops AI-powered device to assist blind people with navigation

Wearable system integrates visual, auditory and tactile feedback to scan surrounding environment - Anadolu Ajansı

New experiences at their fingertips — Harvard Gazette

At the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, students try their hand at Boston Line Type, developed in 1835. Braille didn’t make its way to the U.S. until almost 20 years later.Photos by Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Campus & Community New experiences at their fingertips Course on tactile reading shows students ‘Why Braille Matters’ Nikki Rojas Harvard Staff Writer April 15, 2025 …

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A new visual support system allows you to interpret information from the outside and guide blind people through voice commands and skin stimuli. Finding solutions that help blind people in their day-to-day lives is a goal that pursues multiple research teams around the world. Some of these groups explore methods to try to return, at least in part, the lost vision. While others try to find ways to compensate for that lack of vision by turning inf…

The experimental glasses have cameras and direct the wearer with sound signals.

Chinese team develops wearable AI-assisted navigation system for the visually impaired

A Chinese research team has developed a wearable artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted system designed to help blind and visually impaired individuals navigate their surroundings.