Autonomous wheelchair

There are people developing autonomous cars, boats, planes and, heck, even garbage-munching aquatic drones so why not wheelchairs, too?

Thats the mission of Brenna Argall, an assistant professor of Rehabilitation Robotics at Northwestern University. Argall and her team are developing autonomous wheelchairs designed for people with severe disabilities, such as significant motor impairments or the physical inability to operate a traditional control mechanism like a joystick.

By making assistive machine easier to control, because they can autonomously control themselves, our goal is to make people with severe motor impairments more able and independent, Argall says.


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Sep 15, 2016