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.

Japanese robotics firm tmsuk has unveiled a new piggyback-style rideable designed to make life easier for wheelchair users. The Rodem electric wheelchair is positioned in a way that allows a person to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A robotic wheelchair is being developed that will help children learn to 'drive'. In a new article, researchers describe the testing of ROLY -- robot-assisted learning for young drivers -- in a group ...

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 ...

A team of pretty amazing researchers at Huntsville’s Systems Management and Production Center (SMAP) at the University of Alabama got mucho bang for their buck when they transformed a $250 wheelchair ...

Researchers in Japan unveiled a robot on Tuesday that can lift a patient weighing up to 80 kg (176 lbs) off the floor and onto a wheelchair, an innovation they say will free healthcare workers from ...

Advances in motor design have allowed different types of robots to both specialize for industrial functions and converge in precision.