{"id":205577,"date":"2025-02-05T06:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/smart-robotic-wheelchair-offers-enhanced-autonomy-and-control"},"modified":"2025-02-05T06:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:27:42","slug":"smart-robotic-wheelchair-offers-enhanced-autonomy-and-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/smart-robotic-wheelchair-offers-enhanced-autonomy-and-control","title":{"rendered":"Smart robotic wheelchair offers enhanced autonomy and control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-robotic-wheelchair-offers-enhanced-autonomy-and-control3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent advances in the fields of human-infrastructure interaction, electronic engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have opened new possibilities for the development of assistive and medical technologies. These include devices that can assist individuals with both physical and cognitive disabilities, supporting them throughout their daily activities.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Michigan recently developed CoNav, a smart <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/wheelchair\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wheelchair<\/a> controlled via a Robot Operating System (ROS) based framework. The new wheelchair, presented in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2501.09680\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server, could help to improve the quality of life of individuals who are temporarily or permanently unable to walk, allowing them to move in their surroundings more intuitively and autonomously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inspiration for this work stems from a broader challenge in assistive mobility for people with disabilities (PWD),\u201d Vineet Kamat, senior author of the paper, told Tech Xplore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent advances in the fields of human-infrastructure interaction, electronic engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have opened new possibilities for the development of assistive and medical technologies. These include devices that can assist individuals with both physical and cognitive disabilities, supporting them throughout their daily activities. Researchers at the University of Michigan recently developed CoNav, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}