Alexander Lo, a researcher in the Purdue Center for Paralysis Research, uses an iPad on the RoboDesk. The RoboDesk is an assistive technology being developed at Purdue University to help people with ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue startup has received federal funding to further develop an assistive wheelchair technology that allows power wheelchair users an efficient and easy-to-use method to ...

Assistive technology devices and services help users with disabilities perform tasks like typing, drawing, and more. Assistive technology comes in dozens of forms, and can be built to help with a ...

The Independent Living Center of Kern County has been awarded a $15,000 grant to bolster its Assistive Technology Repair and ...

MakeGood, Inc. has unveiled its innovative 3D-Printed Toddler Mobility Trainer to enhance mobility for young children with disabilities.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability is hosting a hand-on training session to explore the emerging technology of sensors for power wheelchairs.

Caregivers of wheelchair-bound people face a lot of challenges, and one of them is simply getting the person out of the wheelchair at the end of the day and into bed. Repeated heavy lifting in this ...

Thick gravel, mud, snow, steep ramps or hills ... they might get a pedestrian a little dirty or out of breath, but to someone in an electric wheelchair, they could mean terrain that's simply too ...

Robert Riener receives funding from Swiss National Science Foundation, Swiss Department of Inner Affairs, and private sponsors. Millions of people worldwide rely on orthotics, prosthetics, wheelchairs ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are some of the buzziest terms in tech and for a good reason. These innovations have the potential to tackle some of humanity's biggest obstacles ...

After trials in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, Tokyo’s Haneda airport and Abu Dhabi airport earlier this year, WHILL, the developer of autonomous wheelchairs, is bringing its robotic mobility tech to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue startup has received federal funding to further develop an assistive wheelchair technology that allows power wheelchair users an efficient and easy-to-use method to ...