Are we getting closer to the plot of "Planet of the Apes?" Scientists have designed a new wireless brain-machine interface (BMI) that gives monkeys the ability to control a wheelchair using just their ...

Recent advances in the fields of human-infrastructure interaction, electronic engineering, robotics and artificial ...

Human head and brain. Different kind of waveforms produced by brain activity shown on background. Digital illustration. Scientists at the University of Padova in Italy have proven that by using a ...

Sometimes it’s okay for scientists to monkey around. That’s particularly true of Dr. Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University, whose team has published research showing they’ve found a way to enable ...

There are iPhone-controlled cars and beds — now one company plans to integrate iPhones/iPods in its wheelchairs for a new kind of accessibility. Dynamic Controls developed a system to connect an ...

Quadriplegics may gain a new degree of freedom via their tongues, if a new control system becomes widely available. The new system uses that famously strong, agile and sensitive muscle, the tongue, to ...

Getting from A to B in a wheelchair is enough of a challenge in itself, without considering the hassle of stowing the chair away each time its user wishes to travel by car, plane, or train. The Morph ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Seating & Mobility (NSM), the leading provider of complex rehabilitation, mobility and accessibility solutions in the U.S. has signed an agreement with ...

Max Mobility/Permobil has issued a nationwide recall of speed control dials on found on some of its wheelchairs, according to a Jan. 17 recall notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The ...