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 ...

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 ...

Learn More (By Jim Drury, Reuters) – An electric wheelchair that can climb most stairs, including spiral staircases, has been developed by Zurich-based students. The Scalevo Wheelchair can mount ...

It also did something no wheelchair ever had: climb stairs. But even though users loved it, the iBOT went out of production in 2009 when Johnson & Johnson discontinued it. "I was very disappointed ...

An electric wheelchair that can climb most stairs, including spiral staircases, has been developed by Zurich-based students. The Scalevo Wheelchair can mount one stair per second and was designed ...

Stairs soon may no longer be insurmountable obstacles for some of the nation's 2-million wheelchair users. The first wheelchair that can climb stairs _ plus shift into four-wheel drive to scoot up ...

These wheels morph into new shapes to give wheelchair users the ability to ... These wheels can even climb stairs. Governors push back on federal proposal to move National Guard units I taste ...

By creating a compliant wheel that conforms to the terrain around it, these engineers have created an early version of a wheelchair that can climb stairs and traverse rocky terrain. The wheels use ...