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 ...

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 ...

Self-driving wheelchairs have been zooming around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for the past month, helping transport ...

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 ...

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 ...

MORGANTON, N.C. — A robot in downtown Morganton is hard at work mapping miles of city sidewalks. It looks like something straight out of a Star Wars movie. All day Wednesday, Channel 9′s Dave Faherty ...

Japan's latest robot arm won't flip pancakes or do dishes, and you'll have to control its every move via remote, but it enables a surprising range of motion that some disabled individuals just can't ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) - A father in France is harnessing his robotics know-how to help his wheelchair-bound son walk. And the pair hope their creation will help others move again. 16-year-old Oscar ...