Japan's 1st voice-activated wheelchair being developed

SAPPORO, Japan - Madoka Hadachi, a quadriplegic, uses a voice-activated wheelchair at a hospital in Sapporo's Minami Ward on Nov. 6. The wheelchair, Japan's first of its kind, is being developed through cooperation between her doctors and physical therapists, a wheelchair manufacturer and two researchers at the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute.

• Product Code
• ILEA001086767

• Registered date
• 2001/11/06 00:00:00

• Credit
• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• 2001 Kyodo News

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• 1864 × 1657 pixel

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• 897.27(KB)*

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