KD Smart Chair being used in the Affordable Smart Wheelchair project.
(Photo credit: KD Smart Chair/Jacobs School of Engineering University of California, San Diego)
KD Smart Chair announces its collaboration with the University of California, San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering to have an open-source, low-cost, powered wheelchair with assistive and autonomous navigation technologies. The UC San Diego Smart Open Source Wheelchair project will deliver an affordable modular design that can be replicated around the world and used as a test bed for future development in healthcare safety for the patient that requires the use of wheelchairs.
The smart wheelchair project is providing students opportunities for medical and robotics research in the area of Quality of Life (QOL), helping them develop into professional engineers with applicable skills when they enter the job field while providing an open source hardware and software design.
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