tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233083420 2008-09-19 20:13:12 -0400 MIT News Office MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/wheelchair-0919.html">Full story</a> 39 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233062420 2009-03-23 13:42:21 -0400 Inventors Levi Schmidt is a co-inventor of a detachable tricycle wheelchair attachment that allows for faster and more efficient wheelchair travel in developing countries. 74 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233041080 2009-03-23 13:56:26 -0400 Inventors Tish Scolnik is a co-inventor of the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/mbollini/www/lfc/Welcome.html" target="_blank">Leveraged Freedom Chair</a> lever-powered wheelchair to assist in wheelchair travel in developing countries. 58 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233021700 2009-06-16 16:13:54 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Mario Bollini ’09 Course 2 participated in the MIT Public Service Fellowship program, the MIT IDEAS Competition, and in the service learning class, SP. 784, Wheelchair Design for the Developing World. Mario helped design the Figure-Eight drive train, a multi-geared system for mobility-impaired handcycle users that allows them to switch between two gear ratios when traversing various types of terrain in Kenya. Mario was also part of the IDEAS Team, Leveraged Freedom Chair, which received the International Technology Award in 2008 for their design of a wheelchair that can be used indoors and then switched over to lever-powered mode for more efficiency over rugged terrain. 120 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233000780 2009-07-09 12:31:05 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Tish Scolnik ('10 Course 2) is a co-inventor of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a lever-powered wheelchair to assist in the ease of wheelchair travel in developing countries. Tish and her team of fellow inventors won a 2008 IDEAS Competition Award for their design of the Leveraged Freedom Chair. While taking the service learning course "Wheelchair Design for Developing Countries" in her freshman year, Tish was inspired to make a difference in the lives of the physically challenged. She has traveled to Tanzania several times after receiving Public Service Fellowships from the PSC to implement another one of her ideas of a small-business wheelchair, in which the physically disabled are given the opportunity to operate businesses from their wheelchair. In addition to her work on wheelchair design, she has received a Truman Scholarship, one of 60 juniors in the nation, to continue her work in public service. 58 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/232981760 2009-10-20 13:45:27 -0400 garrett hemann This autonomous wheelchair was developed at the computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory at MIT. 389