Elizabeth Jameson sure hopes so. “I’m a quadriplegic which means I can’t use anything to navigate a wheelchair by myself,” said Jameson, who learned she had multiple sclerosis in her mid-30s. “I don’t ...

The country that brought us the autonomous chair is now testing out a self-driving wheelchair for people with limited mobility. Panasonic wants to have lots of its electric wheelchairs in place at ...

Three final-year B.Tech students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham led by their professor have developed a self-driving wheelchair that can safely take a user from one point to another by navigating its ...

This week, I took a ride in a robotic wheelchair. The thing had lasers and a Kinect sensor for eyes, and a touch screen through which you could operate the vehicle. “Our end goal with this is for ...

For Katherine Dean, using a wheelchair means having to leave events too early or stay wearyingly late, to avoid the risk of navigating teeming crowds. She had to leave a Paul McCartney concert early, ...

An affordable, self-driving wheelchair is the latest innovation being worked on at a summer internship program at the University of Toronto, and it could be rolling out very soon. Xinyi Li, a ...

Elizabeth Jameson sure hopes so. “I’m a quadriplegic which means I can’t use anything to navigate a wheelchair by myself,” said Jameson, who learned she had multiple sclerosis in her mid-30s. “I don’t ...