Breaking barriers one step at a time. This video captures a demonstration of a next-generation wheelchair designed to conquer ...

Researchers at the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan have come up with a four-legged wheelchair design that lets the mobility device tackle steps and other obstacles that it simply couldn’t with ...

Most powered wheelchairs have at least two problems: they can't climb stairs, and the user has to remain in a single seated position. An experimental new robotic wheelchair, however, addresses both ...

Imagine a wheelchair that can climb or descend stairs. That's the basic idea behind the iBOT, a motorized wheelchair that has two sets of wheels that can climb stairs and handle more varied terrain ...