Test the .lumen Glasses for the Blind at CES 2026

Self-driving technology was supposed to change how cars move. Few expected it to change how people walk.

At CES 2026, .lumen invites attendees to experience what happens when autonomous driving is taken out of the vehicle and placed where it was never designed to go: on a human being, navigating the world on the pedestrian side.

The result is the .lumen Glasses for the Blind, an AI-powered wearable that enables blind people to move independently, without internet connectivity, without pre-mapped environments, and without relying on constant audio instructions. Not by showing the world, but by understanding it.

This is not a concept video or a future promise. At CES 2026, visitors can test the .lumen Glasses live and experience pedestrian autonomy firsthand, a system you can put on, walk with, and understand in minutes.

The main .lumen booth will be located at the Romanian Pavilion, Booth #50768, within the Venetian Global Pavilions in Las Vegas, organised by ARIES-TM. In addition, the team will be present throughout the show at the European Innovation Council (EIC) booth, ensuring that a .lumen representative is available there most of the time for meetings, demos, and deeper conversations.

In addition, .lumen has been named a CES 2026 Innovation Awards Honouree in Accessibility, recognising a technology that rethinks autonomy as an enabler of human independence.

Furthermore, .lumen has been selected as a finalist in the CTA® Foundation 2026 Pitch Contest, taking place in Eureka Park at CES on Wednesday, from 2-4PM. The competition brings together a small group of startups developing technologies with measurable social impact, and offers a platform to showcase solutions that advance accessibility, independence, and inclusion through innovation.

Attending in Las Vegas are Cornel Amariei, Founder & CEO, Daniel Lăcătuș, COO, and Endre Hunnyadi, Chief Business Officer. Together, they cover the full spectrum, from technology and vision to operations and scale, for anyone looking to understand not just how the Glasses work, but how pedestrian autonomy is moving into the real world.

For those covering accessibility, artificial intelligence, robotics, or technology with real-world impact, this is where autonomy becomes tangible.

Technology explained

Our team's work starts from a simple but often overlooked truth: vision is not the same as perception. Autonomous systems don’t need to “see” the world the way humans do. They need to understand space: what is near, what is moving, what is safe, what is not. That same spatial intelligence, when translated into non-visual guidance, becomes a powerful tool for mobility.

Instead of screens or voice commands, the .lumen Glasses use a patented haptic interface that gently guides head movement, offering intuitive direction in real time. Most users understand it within minutes, if not seconds, for the truly tech-friendly people. The system runs fully on the device, meaning it works anywhere: indoors or outdoors, in familiar places or entirely new ones, with no infrastructure changes nor dependency on connectivity.

The story behind .lumen is personal, but never framed as charity. The company was founded by Cornel Amariei, an engineer who grew up in a family where everyone except him had disabilities. Independent mobility wasn’t an abstract concept; it was something missing from daily life. That experience led to a technical solution.

For centuries, blind people have relied on two primary tools to navigate the world: the white cane and the guide dog. Guide dogs are extraordinary, but they are also fundamentally limited by training time, cost, and availability. Technology, despite its advances, never truly stepped in to close that gap, until now.