Blind and visually impaired people have used canes and walking sticks for centuries. However, it wasn’t until the 1920’s and 1930’s that the white cane came to be synonymous with the blind.

Called "smart cane", the stick will help the visually impaired to easily commute in city buses, walk inside a room without knocking into things and take a safe passage in case of an emergency.

In a recent study presented at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), a team of computer scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) ...

Previous research has suggested that making these kinds of decisions is a priority for people who are blind or visually impaired. To see if their smart walking stick could help, the researchers set up ...

MYSURU: Moved by the plight of visually impaired individuals who struggle with potholes and obstacles on roads, four engineering students from Mysuru have devised an automated walking stick for ...

While walking canes have been leading the blind for hundreds of years, this one is different. Skip to content. News; Watch Live; Winter Storm 2025; Your County; National; Weather; Sports; ...

'Smart' walking stick could help visually impaired with groceries, finding a seat. University of Colorado at Boulder. DOI 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981219. Keywords ...

Artificial intelligence-based smart walking stick can help visually impaired people with grocery shopping and finding a seat. About Careers Internship MedBlog Contact us English (US) ...

'Smart' walking stick could help visually impaired with groceries, finding a seat. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 01 / 230119185812.htm.

Kanika Sharma and Abhimanyu Gulati have designed ‘PathPal’—a smart walking stick aimed at enhancing mobility and safety for the visually impaired. Developed under their start-up, Smart Eye, this ...