Tatum Robotics

There are 6.9 million Americans that are DeafBlind; they cannot see OR hear. There are another 650M+ deafblind globally, 150M+ living with severe deafblindness. The primary language of those with deafblindness is a tactile sign language. In tactile sign language, the person with deafblindness places their hands over their communication partners hand as the communication partner signs. In this way, the deafblind person is able to feel the sign language to understand the message being relayed. Because of this interaction with their communication partner, those with severe deafblindness currently have no means of communicating via a tactile sign language independently.

Tatum Robotics will give the millions of DeafBlind individuals access to the abled world’s resources through their primary and often only conversational language, tactile sign. Addressing an unmet need, this novel humanoid robotic system translates spoken or texted based mediums into sign language that the DeafBlind community uses to communicate.