These include the use of new technology like powered stair climbers to enable wheelchair users to move up and down staircases, National Development Minister Desmond Lee said in a parliamentary ...

Wheelchair users have had to live with the ... joystick and an LCD screen for controlling various functions. Power is provided by two 60-A/h batteries, allowing the chair to travel from 35 to ...

There is a threshold for stair climber operators because the work is a "test of both strength and patience", said Mak, an operator with Caritas Hong Kong. The operators not only need to be strong ...

A Hong Kong-based tech start-up has developed a wheelchair powered by artificial ... contrasting with many other stair-climbing wheelchairs that require additional help. “Most stair-climbing ...

And now their team of 30 has brought this smart power wheelchair – officially ... you need to put the chair into climbing mode, which raises the seat. In my case, I backed up to the stairs ...

A group of five masters students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Zurich University of the Arts developed a self-balancing wheelchair that is capable of climbing stairs.

And the results show stair climbing could be an accessible, at-home way for older adults to build muscle power, she said. “In Belgium, older adults are not really used to going to gyms to work ...