.lumen brings its Glasses for the Blind to Phänomena on Tour in Switzerland.

Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 19 March 2026 – .lumen, the Romanian deep-tech company redefining mobility for the visually impaired, will be featured at Phänomena on Tour Switzerland, one of the country's most ambitious travelling science and discovery exhibitions. 

Running from March 14 through October 2026 across Basel, Yverdon, Lucerne, Altstätten, Zurich and Biel, the exhibition will host up to 2,500 visitors per day inside a striking large-scale mobile dome structure. lumen will be among the experiences at the heart of it. 

Situated within the Coexistence area of the exhibition, .lumen's booth invites every visitor to step into a world that 300 million people navigate every single day. 

There are roughly 300 million people worldwide living with severe visual impairments, with only approximately 28,000 active guide dogs. The gap between those two numbers tells a story that the world has largely accepted as inevitable, but .lumen refuses to. 

"The reality is simple: mobility is still a privilege," says Cornel Amariei, CEO and founder of .lumen. "We built .lumen to scale that level of independence through technology. We do not want to replace the guide dog. We want to offer the same freedom of movement to anyone who needs it, without the limits of cost, availability, or infrastructure." 

.lumen's award-winning Glasses for the Blind use AI, advanced computer vision and spatial awareness to interpret the surrounding environment in real time, communicating navigational information directly and intuitively to the wearer. The result is something profound in its simplicity: a person with severe visual impairment walking freely, confidently, and independently. 

At Phänomena on Tour, visitors will learn about this technology and experience it firsthand. The booth is designed as an open, hands-on encounter, allowing curious minds of all ages to test the glasses and understand, viscerally, what it means to move through the world without sight. 

Phänomena on Tour is a carefully curated journey through the most defining questions of our time, drawing school groups, families, and the general public into genuine dialogue with science, innovation, and the human condition. This year, the interactive exhibition is dedicated to the topic of AI and robotics. With an audience that skews toward young people, the exhibition is exactly the kind of platform where a technology like .lumen can do more than impress: it can inspire. 

"We want every blind person in Switzerland to have the chance to experience our technology," says Amariei. "But also every other person who walks through that dome, as an inspiration to build a more accessible world." 

For .lumen, Switzerland represents both a gateway to a broader European audience and a community whose values around inclusion and innovation align closely with what the company stands for. 

About .lumen 

.lumen is a Romanian deep-tech startup developing Pedestrian Autonomous Driving (PAD AI), an innovation that brings the principles of autonomous driving to pedestrian mobility. Through its flagship product, .lumen Glasses for the Blind, the company enables independence and safer mobility for blind people by replicating the behaviour of a guide dog using artificial intelligence and haptic feedback. www.dotlumen.com  

About Phaenomena on Tour 

Phänomena on Tour is the mobile reimagining of the legendary Swiss science exhibition Phänomena, originally held in 1984. Its mission is to bring scientific phenomena to life in an accessible, interactive, and contemporary way, inspiring children, young people, and adults alike to engage with natural sciences, technology, and the questions shaping our future. Phänomena on Tour opens on March 14, 2026, in Dietikon. Tickets are available at www.phaenomena.ch. 

Media Contact 

Bianca Iulia Simion Chief Marketing Officer, .lumen | bianca@dotlumen.com 

Ferris Bühler Communications, Phänomena on Tour | anastasia@ferrisbuehler.com