Spatial Information to Somatosensory Dimensional Information Soft Robotic Vest

Besides neuroprosthetics, I also build a variety of equipment to help people with other disabilities. The most important thing I've learned from my journey is believing that any problem can be solved with effort. It is just a matter of time, breaking down complex problems into small pieces. I have focused on building human enhancement and rehabilitation robots in college. This semester, I am working at NYU Langone Neuroimaging laboratory on an ARkit project that helps blind people. I have no prior experience with Xcode and swift. It is tough to build a new app from scratch. So I break down the project into three parts: find an object, find the object's center, then measure the distance from the user to the center of the object. Each step is built upon the previous one and makes things much easier. Recently, I have proposed and designed a new device that reacts to the distance information from the iPhone, which will help blind people distinguish the surrounding environment. It is a matrix of soft robotics that changes space information from Lidar to tactile input for the human body.