Glide Wins 2027 CES Innovation Awards in Two Categories!

The AI-powered intelligent guide for people who are blind or have low vision is recognized in both Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility as well as Accessibility & Longevity categories as it rolls out to its first customers.

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SEATTLE, Nov. 9, 2026 — Glidance today announced that Glide, the first AI-powered intelligent guide for people who are blind or have low vision, has been named a CES Innovation Awards® 2027 Honoree in two categories: Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility, and Accessibility & Longevity. The recognition comes as Glide moves out of testing and into daily use, with pilot customers in 10 cities across the US, Canada and the UK who have collectively walked more than 3 million steps.

“These categories are full of extraordinary work, from autonomous vehicles to technologies that help people with disabilities live with greater agency” said Amos Miller, founder and CEO of Glidance. “To have Glide recognized in both says something important: in the conversations about where embodied AI and intelligent robotics are headed, enhancing human agency and individual mobility has a role at the very center.”

The CES Innovation Awards, run by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, are judged by industry designers, engineers, analysts and journalists.

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Pioneering The First New Primary Mobility Aid in 100 Years

For nearly a century, blind or low vision individuals have had two primary mobility options: the white cane and the guide dog. Neither has fundamentally changed, even as the needs of the people relying on them have. Most sight loss happens later in life, yet the support system was never designed around that reality. Training can take years, a guide dog can cost tens of thousands of dollars to train, and waitlists are long. With fewer than 20,000 guide dogs worldwide for the millions of people who could benefit from them, most people are left with limited opportunities to regain their mobility.

Glide offers a third option: an accessible, easy-to-use consumer device that physically guides. Users hold a telescoping handle and walk at their own pace while Glide’s two all-terrain wheels steer and brake. Using stereo-depth cameras and an array of sensors, Glide seamlessly guides users around obstacles and hazards, keeping them on safe path. With the Glide Agent voice interaction, users can ask Glide to describe what’s around them, and lead them to targets within line of sight, such as a hotel check-in desk or a crosswalk button.

Glide is powered by Glidance’s proprietary Agentic Wayfinding™ AI, a spatial reasoning platform built for open-world human spaces. While traditional robotics rely on structured spaces, prior maps or built-in infrastructure, Glide understands the world in real time through perception, reasoning and continuous adaptation, just as humans do.

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Glide’s Rollout

Pilot customers are now using Glide on their daily routes, from commutes and errands to campuses and city streets, and their feedback will guide the wider release over the coming months.

“Walking with the Glide has helped me remember what it was like to walk before I lost my sight to [retinitis pigmentosa]” said Caleb Bartley, a Glide pilot user from Minneapolis. “It has redoubled my certainty that this is an innovation that will serve the blindness community in immeasurable and life-changing ways,”

Visitors to CES 2027, Jan. 6–9 in Las Vegas, can see Glide at booth #55629 and at the CES Innovation Awards Showcase in Hall G of the Venetian Expo.

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About Glidance

Glidance is a Seattle-based autonomous technology company building the future of robotics to serve real human needs. Founded by Amos Miller, a blind technologist who led Microsoft Soundscape, Glidance’s flagship product, Glide, is the world’s first intelligent guide for people who are blind or have low vision. Glidance has been recognized by the CTA Foundation, the Edison Awards, SXSW, the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards and the UN’s AI for Good Summit. Learn more at glidance.io.

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Media contact
Jonathan Kalan
jonathank@glidance.io