Tag: Assistive Technology

ST. LOUIS • A robot rolled into the galleries of the St. Louis Art Museum on Thursday. It was tall, as tall as a man. It had a sturdy base and a thin monitor; something of an iPad on a pole with wheels. It came up the elevator, exited on the third floor, and drove past the Norman Rockwell, the Thomas Hart Benton and all those George Caleb Binghams.

A wireless brain-computer interface capable of transmitting thought commands to digital devices is close to commercialisation following more than a decade of development. The BrainGate...

For the first time ever, a quadriplegic woman has used her thoughts to move a robotic hand across 10 degrees of freedom. The remarkable...

A British AI specialist, struck down with quadriplegia in his twenties, has modified a quadrocopter so that it can be flown with only eye...

In the Arabian Nights story, whenever Ali Baba shouts "Open Sesame," the door to the den of the Forty Thieves opens. But for the...

http://youtu.be/_BEqCat1M48 They're using the wonderful Indiegogo platform to offer pre-orders of the world's first touch free phone, aimed for people with disabilities. It's an amazing chance...

Probably the best car hand control for disabled drivers (for cars with automatic transmission). The device works based on the PUSH - PULL principle. The device...

Computer scientist and founder of Robots and Cake Stuart Turner took to WIRED2014's London stage to talk about open access systems. He did so...

"Shooting from the lip" is no joke for farmer Clyde Thomas when he embarks on a quest to shoot deer and feral animals from...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrMivdZ-mbI After a construction accident left him paralyzed from the neck down 20 years ago, Ken Worrall has been confined to a chair and left...