Austin Bird, an eighth grader at Merrick Avenue Middle School, recently educated his classmates on sporting opportunities ...

WheelMove is a portable wheelchair attachment that can turn any standard wheelchair into an electric one. It debuted at CES ...

As the WheelMove team showed at its booth, the accessory can be attached to a wheelchair in a matter of seconds while seated, ...

A new in-wheel motor for electric vehicles (EVs) delivers a massive amount of torque in a lightweight package, its developers say. The motor — which was made by YASA, a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz ...

A paraplegic engineer was part of a crew that made a suborbital journey on a spacecraft operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. By Adeel Hassan A paraplegic engineer from Germany became ...

In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space Saturday, a 10-minute trip that allowed her to enjoy a few minutes of ...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

Being trapped in a wheelchair causes obvious physical and medical challenges. But it can also lead to serious emotional and social consequences. Researchers at Dublin City University are attempting to ...

Technology has improved since the 50s and in the last five or six years especially, there has been a lot of progress. But the world is still too often designed without wheelchair users in mind A lot ...

An upcoming Blue Origin flight will mark a first for people with disabilities. The company said its next mission will include Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the ...

UK-based Yasa has revealed a potentially game-changing in-wheel electric motor. Based on its record-breaking tiny axial flux motor, the new drive unit prototype can provide over 1,000 hp per wheel.

Less than two months after smashing its own (unofficial) record in power density with its proprietary axial flux motor, YASA has unveiled a real-world application of the technology as an in-wheel ...