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Researchers Build a Talking Robot Guide Dog to Help Visually Impaired People Navigate
TL;DRScientists created a talking robot dog to help blind people navigate cities independently.
Why it matters: Could democratize mobility aid—robots scale faster than training actual guide dogs, reaching more people affordably.
"Only about 2% of visually impaired people in the United States use guide dogs," notes StudyFinds.com, "partly because breeding and training takes years and fewer than half the dogs in training actually graduate." But someday there could be another option: What if you could ask…
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