"BlindAid System" Designed And Developed By MIT Touch Labs - - Virtual Navigation System Designed Specifically For The Blind

One of the most known names in the field of breakthrough inventions, MIT or Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reportedly developed an all new virtual navigation system that has been designed specifically for the blind.

With the help of the all new technology, BlindAid System, will enable the visually impaired to judge and understand their surroundings especially rooms in a virtual environment before physically entering the room or a designated area. The all new revolutionary technology has been designed and developed by MIT Touch Labs.

The director of thew MIT Touch Labs, Mandayam Srinivasan, who is also a member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been collaboration with the Carroll Center for the Blind in Massachusetts, to over see the development and testing of the technology. The device has so far generated quite positive results during the preliminary testing phase, during which it has been confirmed that, once the blind subjects familiarized themselves with virtual surroundings of a room, then they are able to navigate throughout the actual structure with much more ease.

The BlindAid device has been designed on the Phantom platform, a technology that was conceived at MIT in the 1990s. The Phantom system primarily consists of a robotic arm that is controlled by human test subjects, and it works quite like a stylus. With the help of the Phantom, a user can develop a touch gesture, by applying a minimum amount of force on the robotic arm.