Compared to their manual counterparts, electric wheelchairs are far less demanding to operate, as the user doesn’t need to have upper body strength normally required to turn the wheels. But even a ...

Elizabeth Jameson sure hopes so. “I’m a quadriplegic which means I can’t use anything to navigate a wheelchair by myself,” said Jameson, who learned she had multiple sclerosis in her mid-30s. “I don’t ...

The country that brought us the autonomous chair is now testing out a self-driving wheelchair for people with limited mobility. Panasonic wants to have lots of its electric wheelchairs in place at ...

Three final-year B.Tech students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham led by their professor have developed a self-driving wheelchair that can safely take a user from one point to another by navigating its ...

For Katherine Dean, using a wheelchair means having to leave events too early or stay wearyingly late, to avoid the risk of navigating teeming crowds. She had to leave a Paul McCartney concert early, ...

An affordable, self-driving wheelchair is the latest innovation being worked on at a summer internship program at the University of Toronto, and it could be rolling out very soon. Xinyi Li, a ...

Elizabeth Jameson sure hopes so. “I’m a quadriplegic which means I can’t use anything to navigate a wheelchair by myself,” said Jameson, who learned she had multiple sclerosis in her mid-30s. “I don’t ...