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UK designer's wheelchair innovation wins $1m Toyota prize

BBC News
By Beth Rose
image copyrightMalcolm McCurrach | New Wave Images UK
A Scottish designer has won $1m (£753,000) to fund the manufacture of his innovative smart-wheelchair.
Andrew Slorance, who uses a wheelchair himself, won the Toyota-run global Mobility Unlimited Challenge.
Inventors were invited to submit smart technologies to improve the lives of people with lower-limb paralysis.
The Phoenix I uses smart sensors to detect if the user is leaning forward or backwards and adjusts its centre of gravity to prevent tipping or falling.
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Phoenix Instinct chief executive Mr Slorance said winning was out of this world. incredible . ....

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Scot who vowed to 'revolutionise the wheelchair' wins one million dollar backing

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Andrew Slorance, 51, from Nairn, Scotland, has won the Toyota Mobility Unlimited Challenge with his company Phoenix Instinct, which has designed a revolutionary new wheelchair
A Scottish innovator who vowed to “revolutionise the wheelchair” as a teenager has won one million dollars to make his dream a reality.
Andrew Slorance, 51, from Nairn, Scotland, saw off competition from the US, Japan and Italy to win Toyota’s Mobility Unlimited Challenge with his Phoenix i wheelchair.
The intelligent chair automatically adjusts its centre of gravity to ensure the user can be agile and stable at the same time.
The competition, from the Toyota Mobility Foundation and Nesta Challenges, was launched in 2017 in an effort to encourage innovation in assistive technologies for those with lower-limb paralysis. ....

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Toyota Prize: Scottish inventor who vowed to 'revolutionise the wheelchair' wis $1m backing

A Scottish innovator who vowed to “revolutionise the wheelchair” as a teenager has won one million dollars to make his dream a reality.
Andrew Slorance, 51, from Nairn, Scotland, saw off competition from the US, Japan and Italy to win Toyota’s Mobility Unlimited Challenge with his Phoenix i wheelchair.
The intelligent chair automatically adjusts its centre of gravity to ensure the user can be agile and stable at the same time.
The competition, from the Toyota Mobility Foundation and Nesta Challenges, was launched in 2017 in an effort to encourage innovation in assistive technologies for those with lower-limb paralysis.
Efforts from other finalists included a smart wearable simulator that uses artificial intelligence to support muscles at the right time, while exoskeleton technology was exhibited in a number of entries. ....

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British inventor wins $1m prize for revolutionary wheelchair design

The Mobility Unlimited Challenge was
launched three years agoalongside a $4m (£3m) pledge to a range of teams around the world to help change the lives of people with lower-limb paralysis.
As a wheelchair user himself, the Scottish winner of the challenge, Andrew Slorance, 51, was acutely aware of how tipping over backwards was the primary cause of accidents for wheelchair users - and the Phoenix i wheelchair aims to end this.
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Andrew Slorance (L) invented the new wheelchair with his company
Tipping over happens because the wheelchair has a fixed centre-of-gravity, but the user doesn t, Mr Slorance explained.
If the user moves too far out of sync with the fixed position of the wheelchair, they re going to fall over. ....

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Phoenix i wheelchair's Scottish inventor wins $1m to make dream a reality

A SCOT who vowed to “revolutionise the wheelchair” after he broke his back as a teenager has won $1 million to help make his dream a reality.
Andrew Slorance, 51, from Nairn, Scotland, saw off competition from the US, Japan and Italy to win Toyota’s Mobility Unlimited Challenge with his Phoenix i wheelchair.
The intelligent chair automatically adjusts its centre of gravity to ensure the user can be agile and stable at the same time.
The competition, from the Toyota Mobility Foundation and Nesta Challenges, was launched in 2017 in an effort to encourage innovation in assistive technologies for those with lower-limb paralysis. ....

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