US researchers are developing a wheelchair that uses a robot to teach young users how to use it safely at their own pace, in the hope that it will lower the cost and improve accessibility to wheelchair training for children with a disability. You can read how Dr Laura Marchal-Crespo and colleagues at the University of California at Irvine developed and tested the robotic wheelchair with a group of children without disabilities and one child with cerebral palsy, in the 13 August issue of the open access Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation…

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