An electric wheelchair that can climb most stairs, including spiral staircases, has been developed by Zurich-based students. The Scalevo Wheelchair can mount one stair per second and was designed by ...

A new wheelchair gives users a greater freedom to reach previously inaccessible areas. The ‘tank-like’ TopChair-S, which has fold-out caterpillar tracks tucked behind its standard wheels, is capable ...

Glob market Reports offers an overarching research and analysis-based study on,“ Global Wheelchair Stair Climber Market Report, History and Forecast 2016-2030, Breakdown Data by Companies, Key Regions ...

A battery-powered wheelchair that can climb stairs, manoeuvre over gravel or sand and handle 10-centimetre curbs has won United States approval. The iBOT wheelchair, to be sold by Johnson & Johnson, ...

A student in Lynn Lake, Man., has received a boost from his school, which raised money to buy a mechanical stair-climber that helps him go to parts of the building he couldn't otherwise access with ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is relaxing the regulations on stair-climbing wheelchairs that carry elderly people up and down the steps in their homes, despite some safety concerns. The FDA ...

Stairs soon may no longer be insurmountable obstacles for some of the nation’s 2 million wheelchair users. A wheelchair that can climb stairs–and shift into four-wheel drive to scoot up a grassy ...

The nation's first stair-climbing wheelchair hit the market with a bang but disappeared with a whimper, a casualty of price that raises a big question: How much will society agree to pay for high-tech ...

A revolutionary new wheelchair which will allow users to safely climb staircases could soon hit the market. The Scewo chair uses rubber tracks to navigate staircases, and the tracks' rigid base means ...

The aforementioned technologies have been developed with the aim of facilitating the daily activities of wheelchair users, said the project manager Farhad Foturehchi, ISNA reported on Sunday.