Improving assistive technology – Students design robotic wearable to empower the visually impaired

A woman in sunglasses wearing a prototype of the Foresight device

The student team of Ed Bayes (MDE ’21), Nick Collins (MDE ’22), Anirban Ghosh (MDE ’21), and Milan Wilborn (Ph.D. SEAS) won the Harvard Innovation Lab Ingenuity Award Grand Prize for a GSD student project called Foresight, a soft robotic wearable navigation device that helps people with visual impairment feel the environment around them.