Glide Freely: The intelligent guide aid for the blind and low vision community.
Reimagine What’s Possible, One Step at a Time.
Glide is pioneering the future of accessible technology and independent mobility for the blind and low vision community.
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Designed For Independence
Knowing that something is in your way often just isn’t enough.
Glide is built on a different premise—that genuine independence means navigating around obstacles, not just being warned about them.
Glide is the first new primary mobility aid in nearly a century designed from the ground up for independent mobility and navigation. Two wheels, an adjustable telescoping handle, and an array of advanced cameras and sensors work together to physically guide you around obstacles, locate targets like doors, stairs, and elevators, and get you to your destination safely and confidently.
Glide’s goal isn’t just to inform you. It’s to empower you to get where you actually need to go.
How Does Glide Work?
Walk On Your Own Terms
You hold Glide's ergonomic handle in one hand and walk at your own pace. Glide will steer its wheels to keep you on a safe, purposeful line—avoiding obstacles, locating key targets (doors, stairs, elevators, etc.), and handling the last few feet to your destination. No pulling, no complicated setup. Just walk.
Get Up and Running Easily
Self-guided training modules in accessible formats get you on your feet and out into the world on your own time, with additional support if you need it. No complicated setup. Just walk.
Navigate Indoors and Outdoors
Whether you're on a familiar route or somewhere new, Glide's Agentic Wayfinding™ AI makes sense of complex, dynamic pedestrian environments in real time—guiding you confidently indoors and out.
Maintain a Clear Line of Travel
Glide steers gracefully around everything from light posts and trash bins to curbs, potholes, moving pedestrians and overhead hazards. When a path is fully blocked, Glide brakes and communicates via audio so you can work together to find a safe way through.
Locate Doors, Elevators, Stairs, and More
When you need to find a target such as a door, an elevator, escalators, or the counter at a café, Glide will use its camera and sensors to detect it and guide you right up to it.
Navigate Intersections and Road Crossings
Glide recognizes crosswalks, lines you up, and stops before you step off the curb. You decide when it's safe to cross. Once you go, Glide keeps you walking straight—aiming for the opposite curb cut—and lets you know when you've made it across.
Maintain Your Orientation with Environmental Cues
Using scene description combined with precise and well-timed haptic and audio cues, Glide keeps you aware of your surroundings while keeping you in the flow.
Handle Any Terrain, Any Weather
Rugged 8-inch wheels handle smooth pavement, bumpy sidewalks, and accessible trails. Water-resistant for rain, mud, snow, and whatever your day throws at it.
Walk Freestyle or Follow a Route
Start walking on a familiar route and let Glide keep you safe, or follow guided navigation route turn by turn (feature coming via over-the-air-updates). Glide gives you the freedom to move on your own terms.
Get Smarter Over Time
Regular over-the-air software updates and a fleet-wide AI model mean Glide gets smarter with every step taken across the network—yours and everyone else’s.
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Powered by Glide’s Agentic Wayfinding™ Technology
The places we walk most—sidewalks, campuses, transit hubs, city centers—remain messy, dynamic, unmapped and beyond the reach of today’s autonomous systems.
Solving intelligent navigation at this level, for both humans and robotic systems built to support them, requires a new approach to real-world reasoning and continuous learning.
Glidance's proprietary spatial intelligence platform addresses this unique yet critical challenge. Our computer vision system and Agentic Wayfinding™ technology connect every Glide in the fleet, constantly enhancing their ability to understand complex spaces—and guide you through them.
Learn About Our Technology >Technical Features
- Telescoping handle with user-replaceable rubber grip. Comfortable for both left- and right-handed use.
- Portable, collapsible, and light (9lbs / 4kg). Comfortably fits into a standard overhead bin. (Dimensions: 28” tall, 10” wide, and 9” inches deep when fully compact. The handle extends to a maximum height of 43”)
- Powerful built-in speaker with Bluetooth headset connection for audio feedback, and microphone array for voice capture in noisy environments.
- Dual infrared-enhanced stereo depth cameras with near-range ground and overhead obstacle detection, cliff detection, and broader vision up to 50 feet ahead.
- Steering, option selection, and volume buttons built into the handle grip, with a ‘quick access’ programmable button on the back of the handle.
- 8-inch all-terrain wheels on quick-release hubs for easy replacement and cleaning.
- Water, dust, and dirt resistant with a minimum IP54 rating. Safe operating temperature range from –5f to 105f.
- Integrated rechargeable 95 Wh lithium-ion battery — airline carry-on friendly.
- 6+ hours of active use (30,000+ steps), with smart low-power mode when on kickstand to preserve battery for all-day use.
- Charges via the included magnetic connector cable or a standard USB-C cable as a backup. Approximately 3-hour full charge from empty using a 60W USB-C PD power adapter.
- Companion app for setup and onboarding, device settings and Over-The-Air updates
- Connectivity via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and LTE (data plan included in subscription costs).
Navigational & Mobility Features
- Automatic steering and braking help you maintain a clear line of travel and avoid obstacles.
- Automatic avoidance of tripping hazards, obstacles, drop-offs, and overhead objects to keep you safe.
- Detection and automatic guidance to primary targets such as doors, crosswalks, escalators, etc. “Crosswalk ahead”
- Crosswalk approach assistance and veer prevention
- Positional awareness for safe clearance of both your body and the device.
- Clear and decisive haptic feedback for tactile communication in important situations.
- Manual turn indication with left/right steering buttons on both sides of the handle (for left- or right-handed use), and a center confirmation button.
- Safe turn detection and guidance (Glide only initiates a turn when it detects a clear path), and narrow path indication.
Post-Launch Features via Over-the-Air Updates
- Voice Input
- Scene Description
- Guidance on Pre-trained Routes
- Map Integration with 3rd Party Navigation Apps and Route Planners
- 3rd Party App Integration
- and more...
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