A total of 1.01 million visitors attended the Japan Mobility Show 2025, and many guests made their way to a bustling ...

Compared to their manual counterparts, electric wheelchairs are far less demanding to operate, as the user doesn’t need to have upper body strength normally required to turn the wheels. But even a ...

[Irene Sans] and [Alvaro Ferrán Cifuentes] feel that electric wheelchairs are still too expensive. On top of that, as each person’s needs are a little different, usually don’t exactly fit the problems ...

Dec. 4 (UPI) --A British man who was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 2013 broke a Guinness World Record when he took his prototype electric wheelchair to a top speed of 66.826 mph. Jason ...

Anyone has ever had to spend a day in a wheelchair can attest to how painstakingly difficult it is to get around with it, especially on an uphill slope — a journey that might leave one with aching ...

As an expert on electric motors, Philippe Metzinger is very enthusiastic in designing electric vehicles for people with disabilities. So far, he has installed 100 electric wheelchairs to present to ...

While enabling independent mobility for many people with motor impairments related to disease or injury, the power wheelchair is overly burdensome or entirely inaccessible for millions with limited ...