![Autonomous Driving Comes to Scooters [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/12/MIT-Auto-Scooter-1.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | November 16, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
One of the most important aspects of independent living is mobility: the freedom to go where you want, when you want. Paraplegics and others with physical disabilities may be confined to wheelchairs, but not everyone has the strength and dexterity require to power a...
by Alfred Poor | September 13, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Don’t you love it when a new approach to a familiar solution challenges all your assumptions? That’s the case with a new design for wheels that gives wheelchair users a smoother and safer ride. The SoftWheel is an in-wheel suspension system. Most...
![Stand-up Wheelchair Gives Users a Lift [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/09/UpnRide-with-video-600x279.jpg?resize=600%2C279)
by Bruce Brown | September 12, 2016 | General News, Health
We’ve previously written about the ReWalk exoskeleton. The same group has a new company, UpnRide Robotics. The new firm’s single product is a self-stabilizing wheelchair called the UpnRide that shifts from sitting to upright position and can travel over...
![Adjustable Kid-sized Exoskeleton [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/06/Kid-sized-exoskeleton-with-video-600x274.jpg?resize=600%2C274)
by Bruce Brown | June 14, 2016 | General News, Medical
Most exoskeletons, existing and in development, are for adults. Growing children obviously change their size, particularly in the length of their limbs, and anyone who has raised children to their teenage years knows that growth spurts can cause rapid change. A...
![Toyota and DEKA Join Forces For Next Generation iBOT Wheelchair [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/05/iBOT-600x279.jpg?resize=600%2C279)
by Bruce Brown | May 23, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
You may not recognize the term “iBOT”, but odds are you’ve heard of the Segway. The balance-controlled, two-wheeled vehicle still isn’t a common sight even 14 years after its introduction in 2002, but you can sometimes see them used by...
