Visual Impaired humans cannot perceive their environment and navigate like normal Humans do, which results in reduced mobility.They also fear the society and are often treated as incable submissive section of society. In the light of making a blind person overcome his fear and step out to the society independently and confidently, we have added a few features to the blind stick enabling the blind to be able to detect gender,age and basic actions done by a person through which he can react to his opposite party in an appropriate manner. This project is useful when it comes to blind people being able to detect facial expressions in order to respond to environmental situations precisely.It also helps them detect the age and gender of the person to respond accordingly. It also helps them interpret text from images without relying on the third party for help.For security purposes, it helps in detecting the actions carried out by the person in the surroundings and taking appropriate actions against the situation. If this project is implemented appropriately, it can help blind people in carrying out a wide range of everyday activities effortlessly which adds on a lot of scope for the juvenile generation. For facial expression detection, AI uses a lot of non-verbal functionalities such as facial expressions, body language and gestures. Whereas, to determine the age and gender it uses a broad dataset which includes a significant amount of pictures of men and women contributing to the dataset which in turn helps in accurately determining the age and gender of the person.Text to speech conversion is done by storing many different font and text images in patterns. It uses matching algorithms to distinguish between text images, character by character.In conclusion, the blind stick accommodates multiple features each of which can be accessed with separate functionalities such as, one functionality for action and object detection, one for image to speech conversion, one for facial recognition.

Scientists have taken inspiration from X-Men's Cyclops and created a contact lens that points a red laser at what the wearer is looking at. The regular-size contact lens is fitted with a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) which points in the direction the user is looking. French engineers used off-the-shelf components to create a working prototype which can be used for gaze recognition. Gaze recognition is a budding field of research and could be the next frontier for computer systems. Instead of using a touch screen or a mouse to control a device, gaze recognition would allow users to select options on a display just by looking at them.

Robotic hands capable of picking up objects as fragile as a crisp by "sensing" objects have been developed by researchers. Two new tools built by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) offer a breakthrough in the emerging field of soft robotics – a new generation of robots that use squishy, flexible materials rather than traditional rigid equipment. These types of soft robots often draw inspiration from living organisms and offer numerous benefits in their versatile functionality. They are able to operate far more delicately than their rigid counterparts, but until now they have lacked the ability to perceive what items they are interacting with. To overcome this, the researchers equipped their robots with various sensors, cameras and software, allowing them to "see and classify" a range of objects.

Scientists have developed an artificial eye that could provide vision for humanoid robots, or even function as a bionic eye for visually impaired people in the future. Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology built the ElectroChemical Eye – dubbed EC-Eye – to resemble the size and shape of a biological eye, but with vastly greater potential. The eye mimics the human iris and retina using a lens to focus light onto a dense arrays of light-sensitive nanowires. Information is then passed through the wires, which act like the brain's visual cortex, to a computer for processing. During tests, the computer was able to recognise the letters'E', 'I' and'Y' when they were projected onto the lens.

Farmers in New Zealand have used a four-legged robot to herd sheep, patrol fields and perform other agricultural tasks. The feats were carried out as part of a demonstration of Spot – a robotic dog developed by Massachusetts-based engineering firm Boston Dynamics. Equipped with software developed by robotics company Rocos, Spot was controlled remotely to shepherd sheep across a mountainside. "The age of autonomous robots is upon us," claimed Rocos chief executive David Inggs. "Our customers are augmenting their human workforces to automate physical processes that are often dull, dirty, or dangerous. Organisations can now design, schedule and manage inspection missions remotely."