The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is relaxing the regulations on stair-climbing wheelchairs that carry elderly people up and down the steps in their homes, despite some safety concerns. The FDA ...

We've seen various stair-climbing wheelchairs over the years, including the iBot, the Chiba and, most recently, the Scalevo. All those designs kept the "wheel" in the chair, but a new design from Hong ...

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 by ...

Which stair chairs are best? For people with limited mobility, getting up and down stairs — in an emergency or otherwise — can present a huge challenge. It may even be impossible. For this reason, ...

The aforementioned technologies have been developed with the aim of facilitating the daily activities of wheelchair users, said the project manager Farhad Foturehchi, ISNA reported on Sunday.

While wheelchair design is advancing, allowing chairs to do things like move sideways and diagonally and follow the person next to them, stairs and curbs remain a formidable hurdle for all but a few ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo's Kamata lab are working on a new wheeled robotic vehicle that can climb stairs. Called the NOBOROT, it uses a proximity sensor to detect when it is next to a ...

Toyota has unveiled a mobility concept called Walk Me, a four-legged autonomous chair that walks where wheels cannot. The device aims to address challenges faced by people with reduced mobility, such ...