In spite of advances in wearable robot technology, robots have had a hard time displacing wheelchairs as the dominant technology to help those living with physical disabilities navigate the world ...

A Lehigh University scientist has built a "smart" robotic wheelchair that can navigate through a crowded city on its own, with help from laser and camera sensors.

At a recent hackathon in China organised by Lenovo, a team of makers have created an autonomous wheelchair that is powered by both an Arduino and a Lenovo Phab 2 Pro – a phone that uses Google ...

This is the MC Hawking robot built by the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco. It’s a robotic electric wheelchair outfitted with a PC, an XBox Kinect, and an Arduino. On the software side ...

Canadian tech company Kinova Robotics has developed a lightweight, carbon fiber robotic arm which attaches to wheelchairs. Boasting three fingers and six degrees of freedom, it can be used for ...

Those who have to use a wheelchair are often bound to the elevation of the seat if they want to reach something, which isn't fair when some parts of our world are still built for standing height ...

There are plenty of Arduino-based robots in the world, but actually building one is a bit tough if you're not familiar with Arduino programming. But a company called ArcBotics has created an ...

Learning to build a robot arm will teach you how to breadboard a circuit, how to program your Arduino, and how to work with moving parts.