For patients who no longer have the use of their limbs and torso, life must be navigated through a powered wheelchair – which users often control by blowing into a plastic straw to execute basic ...

A regular or electric wheelchair might suit someone who has lost the use of their legs, but for those suffering from muscular dystrophy or ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) who have lost control of ...

GeckoChat was created in 2003 for GeckoSystems' elder care and personal assistance robot the CareBot(tm). It was designed to provide medication and scheduling reminders and record compliance for the ...

A fully integrated wheelchair drive-control platform, the ASL iON includes Bluetooth connectivity for up to eight devices, multiple active drive controls for the user to navigate through, ...

Individuals with paralysis in a new clinical trial were able to use a tongue-controlled technology to access computers and execute commands for their wheelchairs at speeds that were significantly ...

Quadriplegics may gain a new degree of freedom via their tongues, if a new control system becomes widely available. The new system uses that famously strong, agile and sensitive muscle, the tongue, to ...

Thick gravel, mud, snow, steep ramps or hills ... They might get a pedestrian a little dirty or out of breath, but to someone in an electric wheelchair, they could mean terrain that's simply too ...

Driver-assist technologies in modern automobiles, including emergency braking and lane assistance, incorporate robotics autonomy to transform traditionally human-operated machines into shared-control ...

February 11, 2009 Researchers at the University of South Florida have designed a system that uses an Electroencephalograph (EEG) to read the brain waves of wheelchair-bound people and allows them to ...

Adaptive Switch Laboratories, a division of Invacare America, today launched the ASL iON Integrated Drive Control System, a life-changing advancement for power wheelchair users that goes beyond ...