t’s 3:30 am in the featureless Singularity University meeting room I’m peering into via Skype and I’ve just asked Marita Cheng to take a photo of the buttons on her co-founder, Alberto Rizzoli’s, ...

When it comes to the possibilities of technology, scientists and engineers are less interested in futuristic flying cars, and more intrigued by how they can improve the human experience. One key focus ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The first time Mark Edwards used Aipoly Vision, he cried. Edwards, 56 ...

The Aipoly app uses artificial intelligence to recognize its surroundings, and then says those objects out loud as a way to aid visually impaired users. The app's makers claim the software improves ...

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How the young Italian Albert Rizzoli gives a significant contribution to the technologies for blind people Ready to be downloaded from Applestore in November 2015, the innovative tool is able to ...

An Australian engineer has co-created created an app for the blind or visually impaired that reads out what is in front of it. It is called Aipoly and it can identify over 1000 different objects. The ...

The first time people use Australian startup Aipoly – an app which helps blind people to see the world using artificial intelligence – they often cry. Created by entrepreneurs Marita Cheng, Alberto ...

Startup Aipoly is preparing to deliver its second offering in the form of the Aipoly App for Android and iOS devices, promising to allow for the creation and management of fully autonomous stores of ...

As I walked around my office on a recent morning, a female voice on my iPhone narrated the objects I passed. “Brick,” “wall,” “telephone,” she said matter-of-factly. The voice paused when I came upon ...

Launched in January 2016, Aipoly makes telepresence robotic arms for kids with cancer to ensure they can attend school, aid people with a disability and to monitor and ensure elderly people can ...

This app recognizes objects in the user's environment and reads them out by name. The “Aipoly” app for camera phones helps visually impaired people to recognize everyday objects. Through a neural ...