Self-Driving Wheelchairs
October 3, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
From arrival to discharge, hospitalized patients need to move from one location to another, usually with a staff member providing muscle power and directions. It needn’t be this way. Engineers in the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology have built and clinically tested an autonomous wheelchair and produced a video showing how well it worked at Changi Hospital in Singapore last year. MORE WITH VIDEO
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