wheelchair

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wheelchair

Med a special chair mounted on large wheels, for use by invalids or others for whom walking is impossible or temporarily inadvisable

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The team behind the stair-climbing wheelchair comprises seven mechanical engineering students and one electrical engineering student from the autonomous systems lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and two industrial design students from the Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK).

Wheelchair takes winning position: a self-aligning wheelchair for negotiating stairs has won the global student design showcase from National Instruments. Jonathan Newell reports from Austin, Texas

Literature presents stair-climbing wheelchair mechanism with high single-step capability.

Design of a transmission for a electric powered wheelchair

Would-be inventors are better off focusing on innovation first, advised the inventor of the Segway Human Transporter, the IBOT stair-climbing wheelchair and hundreds of other, mostly medical, products.