I took a 90-second eye exam at CES 2025, and the results were surprisingly accurate

Getting common eye exams is an efficient apply for sustaining good imaginative and prescient. Nevertheless, doing so requires setting apart time to go to an eye fixed physician, a luxurious many individuals haven’t got. Eyebot hopes to alter that by introducing the choice of a 90-second, self-serve eye examination. 

With so many exhibitors, it is troublesome to face out on the CES present ground, however the Eyebot sales space had a line almost on daily basis, with individuals buzzing to get their eye examination in. The idea is straightforward: customers stroll as much as a kiosk, comply with the prompts, and inside 90 seconds, get a tele-doctor-approved prescription.

Sound to good to be true? I gave it a attempt for myself, and the four-step expertise was as seamless because it sounds. 

If you first stroll as much as the kiosk, referred to as the S1 Terminal, you might be walked via a collection of questions, akin to whether or not you might be sporting contacts or glasses, what sort of glasses you might be sporting, and whether or not you might be comfortable together with your present prescription. 

Then, it comes time for the letter take a look at, which is very like your typical eye chart letter examination. Nevertheless, the kiosk’s display exhibits a circle with letters on the display, which exhibits smaller letters each time, and you’ll sort within the order of letters you see. 

For step three, you place your present glasses in a tray, when you sporting any, in order that it may decide your present prescription. When strolling me via the demo, CEO Matthias Hofmann defined that this was essential as a result of docs by no means wish to enhance a prescription too drastically. 

Lastly, for step 4, you might be requested to deal with a object within the distance so the machine can take your eye measurements. Then utilizing all that info, in seconds, it is ready to load your eye prescription. Mine confirmed a .25 distinction from the prescription I final bought once I went to the attention physician’s workplace, proving how correct it’s because the .25 distinction could be extraordinarily minimal.

To ship the prescription, the S1 Scanner makes use of AI algorithms that had been skilled on medical knowledge, in addition to tele-doctors that overview each take a look at session and use the affected person knowledge collected by the kiosk to craft a remaining prescription. Hofmann shared that the tele-doctors overview the AI algorithms’ predictions, and with each adjustment the physician makes, the algorithm additionally learns extra, making them more and more correct. 

Once I requested Hoffman whether or not customers can decide out of getting their eye examination outcomes used for additional coaching the AI, Hofmann stated not proper now, however that could be attainable sooner or later. 

For customers who desire a doctor-signed prescription, Eyebot additionally provides that possibility for $20, which Hofmann defined was similar to a co-pay, plus the added comfort of doing it shortly and everytime you’d like. The Eyebot expertise is FDA-registered and listed, and a number of IRB‑accredited medical research have been accomplished, in accordance with the web site. 

The plan for rollout is for Eyebot to work with optical retailers, leasing them the kiosks in order that customers who go to these shops can expertise fast, free eye exams. Retailers can profit by serving extra prospects extra shortly with out having an eye fixed physician on web site and having a tele-doctor out there always through the kiosk.