Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing a walking stick for blind or visually impaired people with the help of artificial intelligence.

Putting into work their robotics and coding skills, female pupils from the school have now invented smart sticks that can detect obstacles not less than 120 centimetres away from a blind person.

A smart suitcase and navigation app for blind flyers Assistive technologies help open new frontiers for those with vision impairments.

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