Zero Project Awardee 2026Updated on 2 December 2025
Smartphone app offering AI-powered services to its users with visual disabilities
Essl Foundation - Zero Project
Austria
About
EMVI is a Bruges-based technology start-up company focusing on AI-driven assistive technology for people with visual disabilities. EMVI has launched a smartphone app, combining real-time scene description, navigation, object recognition, text reading and even emotion detection in a single voice-interactive platform. By mid-2025 the app was downloaded 750 times per day, used in 45 countries, and serving over 7,000 individuals. The company aims to grow quickly, including a launch in African countries.
Solution: EMVI App
Organization: EMVI
Country of Implementation: Europe
Find out more here: Zero Project Database
[Alt text: A man, possibly with visual impairment, uses a smartphone through touch and audio features. The photo conveys dignity and independence, showing how accessible technology empowers people to connect, learn, and participate equally in the digital era.]
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