Blind people are getting a helping hand (a helping belt, so to speak) from South Korean startup AI Guided. At CES in Las Vegas, the company was showcasing an impressive feat of combining optics and his Lidar technology with AI-powered on-device computing to identify obstacles and aid navigation. rice field.
In addition to using gentle haptic feedback to help guide you, the company claims it can do advanced object identification to keep pedestrians safe. The user will be hands-free.
AI-Guided’s next product, Guidi, unveiled at CES 2023. image creditBy: Haje Kamps/TechCrunch
The company plans to begin first work on the product in January 2020, with the first prototypes in mid-2021 and shipping in October 2023. We hope to be able to incorporate 8 hours of battery life and full autonomy in situations where Wi-Fi or cellular data is not available.
There isn’t a lot of information or details available so far, but as soon as I saw the promotional image the company has, the guide dog is giving it an alternative side eye, so I have to share that as one of the oddities. And it turns out there’s an amazing thing I found while roaming the exhibit floor at the world’s largest consumer electronics show.
The company told TechCrunch that it plans to launch an Indiegogo campaign to bring Guidi to market later this month.
