New chairs track obstacles while drones map the room ...

A tiny magnet embedded in a tongue through piercing, implantation or adhesion has been shown by a Georgia Institute of Technology team of researchers to be capable of acting as a controller for the ...

For patients who no longer have the use of their limbs and torso, life must be navigated through a powered wheelchair – which users often control by blowing into a plastic straw to execute basic ...

GeckoChat was created in 2003 for GeckoSystems' elder care and personal assistance robot the CareBot(tm). It was designed to provide medication and scheduling reminders and record compliance for the ...

The most fundamental difference between a professional mobility solution and a standard market alternative lies in its regulatory pedigree. Standard mobility equipment often enters the market with ...

Quadriplegics may gain a new degree of freedom via their tongues, if a new control system becomes widely available. The new system uses that famously strong, agile and sensitive muscle, the tongue, to ...

Blinking powers a new eye-tracking system to enable wheelchair-bound people to control their movement. The state of the art self-powered eye tracker harnesses energy from simply blinking - and is as ...

A regular or electric wheelchair might suit someone who has lost the use of their legs, but for those suffering from muscular dystrophy or ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) who have lost control of ...

A Chinese research team has developed the world's first self-powered eye-tracking system that generates electricity from blinking, enabling eye-controlled wheelchairs for patients with amyotrophic ...

February 11, 2009 Researchers at the University of South Florida have designed a system that uses an Electroencephalograph (EEG) to read the brain waves of wheelchair-bound people and allows them to ...