Robotic Wheelchair Wunkerkind!

by iDesign
Posted September 27th, 2009 at 7:31 am

Wheelchairs are a deck a dozen but the advent of face and inexpensive robotics is genuinely enabling the disabled. The CARRIER Wheelchair does nearly everything – making trusty the individual is full independent, confident of traversing some terrain and situation.

The contact is specially formed to advise over a commode. A “trap door” opens so you crapper ingest the commode in a conventional manner. No domain for ungainly transfers or aided lifts. Stairs and inclines are a holiday too. A “Galileo Wheel” combines a rotate and road into a azygos impart with advantages from both. The full advance add lifts to hold you accomplish higher objects.

Nice create tho not the prototypal of its category – the CARRIER seems substantially intellection discover and mature for production. Hey, I’m every for methodicalness that crapper meliorate calibre of life.

The CARRIER was developed as semesterproject at the University of Applied Arts in the Studio Industrial Design 2 Esslinger. (www.creativednaaustria.com)

Designers: Julia Kaisinger, Mayrhofer Mathias, Iranmanesh Niki, Demiric Bilge & Benesch Xiulian

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CARRIER Robotic Wheelchair by Julia Kaisinger, Mayrhofer Mathias, Iranmanesh Niki, Demiric Bilge & Benesch Xiulian

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