General Motors has patented a technology for improving wheelchair accessibility in autonomous vehicles. The system involves identifying visual markers on the vehicle, deploying a ramp, tracking ...

A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry ...

Chad McCrary snapped his spine in a motoring accident nearly twenty years ago in 2005, but still pursued wheelchair bodybuilding. The Zomato delivery agent wears a helmet and after making a few ...

As part of a New York City pilot program, Bird is giving disabled residents a free attachment that equips their wheelchair with an electric motor and handlebars with a throttle. Though you can spot ...

General Motors has devised a way to make it easier to bring a wheelchair along in a small car. The automaker has filed a patent application for a “System For Boarding A Wheelchair On A Vehicle” that ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - General Motors' robotaxi unit Cruise on Thursday unveiled a self-driving vehicle that is accessible to people with disabilities even as it waits for a key regulatory approval ...

Valery Spiridonov, 31: Russian tech geek who runs an educational software company from his home east of Moscow. Because he has Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a genetic disorder that wastes muscles and ...