“The Glidance resolution is really progressive and leverages robotics in a brand new approach to enhance the lives of blind people. Two issues stood out with their marketing strategy and resolution: first with an getting old inhabitants, many of us are shedding their sight mid-life, which reduces their high quality of life and leaves them unprepared for navigating a world with out sight. This can be a big untapped marketplace for the Glidance resolution,” Mike Oitzman, a robotics editor at WTWH Media, founding father of the Cellular Robotic Information, and choose within the competitors, stated. “Second, CEO and co-founder Amos Miller is each blind and an engineer, and he brings a novel first-person perspective to the issue and the answer. Amongst this cohort of pitchfire contestants, we felt that Glidance was nicely ready and able to transfer to the following stage of the corporate development.”

Glide’s battery can final for eight hours, relying on utilization, and may be charged with a regular energy outlet. For many customers, it takes solely hours or days to get used to utilizing Glide.

Glidance was based earlier this 12 months by Amos Miller and Mike Sinclair and is predicated in Seattle, WA. Miller misplaced his sight in his 20s and has struggled with utilizing a cane. His experiences impressed him to make use of his technical data to create a greater support for blind people.

Glidance competed alongside three different startups. These embrace: