An new Italian designed 'robot
wheelchair' that was presented in Rome on Tuesday makes it
possible for disabled people to move around in an upright
position, making their daily activities easier and safer.
The prototype, called RISE (Robotic Innovation for Standing
and Enabling), is ready, the application for a European patent
has been made and the innovative system should be on sale late
on 2018.
The system moves like a vehicle operated by remote control
and can change form like a 'transformer'.
It was development by Volterra motorial rehabilitation centre
of Italian workplace accidents insurance agency INAIL and Pisa's
Scuola superiore Sant'Anna.
"It is a model of social bio-robotics, applied to the
rehabilitation of people who have suffered a serious accident,"
said Maria Chiara Carrozza, a former education minister, of the
Scuola Sant'Anna.
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