For someone with advanced Lou Gehrig’s disease or severe paralysis, a motorized wheelchair can be very hard to use: If you can’t move a joystick with your hand, you have to use a switch embedded in ...

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, ...

Covina, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Electric Wheelchair is a motorized wheelchair operated by an electric motor without manual power and used for disabled patients. Centre wheel drive electric ...

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 ...