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Projects: Tactile vision substitution system (TVSS)

Based on the work by the late Paul Bach-y-Rita and colleagues at the Smith-Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciences in the 1960s. The definitive work on this work remains the book: P. Bach-y-Rita, Brain Mechanisms in Sensory Substitution. New York: Academic, 1972. Appearing below is an artist's rendering of that historic system.

Geometric shape touching tactile sensor on sensate telerobot.