wheelchairs

Salim Nasser's wheel design could dramatically reduce the repetitive-stress injuries that often plague manual wheelchair users.

Employing Google's new toy to improve wheelchair control sounds like the least silly way to use $1,500 nerdwear.

The robotic wheelchair senses the topography of a surface and decides whether to roll across it, or walk.

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Japanese company WHILL’s eponymous product is one of those things that’s so smart that it’s almost annoying that no one...

For those paralyzed from the neck down, controlling a wheelchair even with a joystick is impossible. Researchers at Japan’s Miyazaki...

Austin Whitney didn’t want to graduate from college in a wheelchair. So he and the student engineers at U.C. Berkeley’s “Kaz Lab” built a machine that allowed him to stand up and walk across the commencement stage

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Exoskeletons are valuable for several reasons — they can help military personnel carry a heavier load, and they can be...