The future is now for a South Carolina man who came to Raleigh for a new iBOT, a high-end wheelchair that climbs curbs, cruises over gravel and helps the owner rise up and look you in the eye. Loy ...
Megan Yekel demonstrates how she drives her iBot, a revolutionary piece of equipment for people who rely on a wheelchair for mobility. Don Carey/ The Times Leader Wilkes-Barre resident Megan Yekel, ...
May 13, 2023 May 13, 2023 Updated Jun 17, 2024 The iBOT Personal Mobility Device can do things most wheelchairs cannot — like climb stairs and traverse rough outdoor terrain — but until now the cost ...
The new high-tech wheelchair that climbs stairs and raises users to standing height isn't going to have much effect on the lives of people with disabilities until the $29,000 price dramatically lowers ...
WASHINGTON -- Stairs are about to become less of an obstacle for some of the nation's 2 million wheelchair users. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a wheelchair that literally can ...
Before the Segway made him famous, inventor Dean Kamen had already spent decades revolutionizing medical devices: infusion pumps, insulin pumps, stents, dialysis machines. Kamen's boldest idea, though ...
WASHINGTON -- 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 ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Derek Avilez is still working light duty as a firefighter despite being bound to a wheelchair. His chair called the iBOT made life a lot easier, but he says it was lost by an ...
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