29 Oct

Wheelchair that can climb Stairs

 

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Innovation never stops rather tends to reach the top! Definitely, there will always be improvement on available resources to solve a current problem. To be more precise, consider this example from an ordinary chair turned into a wheelchair which can move from one place to another but it seems limited in going up and down stairs.
Here’s a newly developed hybrid-like wheelchair and a Segway, called Scalevo. The developers are extraordinary students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and the Zurich University of the Arts under the directorship of Dr. Roland Siegwart and Dr. Roland Haas. The 10 students is a combination of engineers and industrial designers.

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