Students at Glasgow University are developing a robotic guide that could help blind people find their way around places like shopping centres and even identify items on a shelf in a shop.

RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell went along to the Forth Valley Sensory Centre in Falkirk to learn more about a robot called Pepper.

If you'd like to keep up to date on the progress of this project, including a new Smart cane, info will be updated via the sensory centre's website www.forthvalleysensorycentre.org

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Image: Quigley, Allan's Guide dog sitting to the right of Pepper, Pepper's a white Humanoid robot from Glasgow University holding Quigley's lead