In spite of advances in wearable robot technology, robots have had a hard time displacing wheelchairs as the dominant technology to help those living with physical disabilities navigate the world.

Wiring into the joystick is a quick and easy way to hack in custom control to a wheelchair. Building robots can be fun, and remains a popular pastime among many in the hacker and maker set. However ...

When it comes to the real life-changing technologies, many are found in the accessibility market. These technologies may never appear on the radar of many of the people reading this article, but can ...

Though nearly every country in the world is ageing fast, Japan is at the front of the pack and in the next few decades will see its ratio of workers to retirees change from 7-1 to 2-1 – a scary ...

A human-size robot balancing on a ball that acts as a spherical wheel can push wheelchairs as smoothly as a human assistant – and may carry out this caregiving task better than many humanoid robot ...

Making a wheelchair that can deal with steps and other obstacles has puzzled engineers for decades, with everything from tank treads to spokes tried and found not quite practical. Now a team of ...

SMAP student employees with the robot they made from a wheelchair and named Johnny Five. From left are Jean-Luc Burhop, Jared McArthur, Benjamin Christa, Jessica Sisk and Derek Johnson. (Zita ...

This wearable robot lets wheelchair users stand and walk all on their own. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have created a groundbreaking wearable robot, ...

A new kind of autonomous wheelchair under development can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command. MIT ...

Chad McCrary snapped his spine in a motoring accident nearly twenty years ago in 2005, but still pursued wheelchair bodybuilding. The Zomato delivery agent wears a helmet and after making a few ...