Ever seen a wheelchair stop, lock in, and dominate a staircase like it’s no big deal?
This one does. This wheelchair ramps like a champ!
The seat shifts back, redistributing weight – then tank-like tracks deploy underneath. Think escalator meets exosuit.
No awkward dragging. No sketchy stair lifts. No asking strangers for help.
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This is very impressive but it’s not showing how it works when the footplate is down and what happens when there’s actual feet using the footplate. My daughter is a wheelchair user, and the footplate for her is a highly important aspect of her comfort. This is really great but it is probably only going to be useful to someone with a certain type of disability
It is also about only going down, using the energy of gravity to aid the wheelchairs movement. Nothing about the important part of going up a set of stairs or how long the batteries in the wheelchair last and how much they batteries cost and who will fix the chair it is breaks, and it will break.
Put a 300lb human in that chair… you’re gonna be charging the battery at the end of the steps. I’d rather just use the elevator because one failure of what is tried and true tech like this will inevitably have one failure that will end badly and ban chairs from using the stairs.
If I were a building owner, I’d state that wheelchairs are forbidden from being used on the stairs as I could see that one variable the chair designer didn’t account for isn’t taken into consideration and that chair could slip or fail. Then the lawsuits fly, laws are passed and some sign company is making millions on regulatory signs being put up on EVERY staircase that wheelchairs must use ADA designated ramps.
There is only one situation where I saw a cool invention for stair climbing but a total psychopath used it to make a Patsy out of the guy and put him on public display.
Looks cool – but what happens when the user wants to go _up_ the stairs?
It’s strange they don’t show a video of that part.