{"id":30105,"date":"2016-09-12T22:16:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T05:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/stand-up-wheelchair-gives-users-outdoor-mobility"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:16:28","slug":"stand-up-wheelchair-gives-users-outdoor-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/stand-up-wheelchair-gives-users-outdoor-mobility","title":{"rendered":"Stand-up wheelchair gives users outdoor mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stand-up-wheelchair-gives-users-outdoor-mobility2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-stabilising wheelchair from Israeli technology start-up lets you cruise through town while standing. Matthew Stock reports.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20 years ago Amit Goffer suffered an accident that confined him to a wheelchair. Increasingly dissatisfied with what was on offer, the electrical engineer built this \u2014 the UPnRIDE. It\u2019s a robotic exoskeleton that helps people paralysed from the waist down to stand tall in the outside world. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER AND FOUNDER OF UPNRIDE, DOCTOR AMIT GOFFER SAYING: \u201cThe UPnRIDE device, the whole idea is that you can use it outdoors as well as indoors and in a safe manner because they, it automatically balances you and stablizes you\u2026 The concept is new because you don\u2019t see any disabled person rolling outside in a standing position so this is a breakthrough in the industry of wheelchair manufacturing, I\u2019m sure that others will follow.\u201d It goes from seated to standing at the push of a button. A gyroscope \u2014 similar to that in a two-wheeled Segway \u2014 along with self-stabilising software helps manoeuvre upright over uneven urban terrain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/video\/2016\/09\/12\/stand-up-wheelchair-gives-users-outdoor?videoId=369825973&newsChannel=healthNews\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/video\/2016\/09\/12\/stand-up-wheelchair-...healthNews<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-stabilising wheelchair from Israeli technology start-up lets you cruise through town while standing. Matthew Stock reports. Nearly 20 years ago Amit Goffer suffered an accident that confined him to a wheelchair. Increasingly dissatisfied with what was on offer, the electrical engineer built this \u2014 the UPnRIDE. It\u2019s a robotic exoskeleton that helps people paralysed from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30105","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66267,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30105\/revisions\/66267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}