Founded by former Sony, Olympus and Toyota engineers, TechCrunch Tokyo 2012 grand prize winning hardware startup Whill not only wants to redesign the wheelchair, but also combat stigma by creating ...

While we wish the need for a motorized wheelchair on nobody, chairs like Whill's Model F integrate well with Apple technologies and are mobility-preserving for the folks that do need them. Here's what ...

Wheelchair users with full use of their arms generally don't need electric wheelchairs ... but sometimes, especially if those users have long distances to cover, it sure would be nice to have one.

Electric wheelchairs have come a long way in the past few years. Thanks to technological advances, you can now find models with features like omnidirectional wheels, Telsa-like remote summon ...

Whill's electric wheelchair picked up the award for Best Accessibility Tech in last year's Best of CES, and now it's back with a newer, lighter and more portable version of that vehicle. The Model Ci ...

There's a guy in my neighborhood who has a kind of Segway wheelchair, a gyro-balanced two-wheeler with a seat. It can't do stairs (unless he has some Dalek jets I haven't yet seen), but it fits into a ...

All-wheel drive or four-wheel drive takes cars and trucks onto terrain untouchable by their two-wheel-drive counterparts, and Japanese personal mobility startup Whill injects that concept into its ...

After trials in Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, Tokyo's Haneda airport and Abu Dhabi airport earlier this year, WHILL, the developer of autonomous wheelchairs, is bringing its robotic mobility tech to ...

Tokyo's Haneda International Airport will be using Whill's autonomous personal mobility chairs at its airports to help mitigate the spread of coronavirus in the airport. Whill has already completed 11 ...

A couple of years ago at the Tokyo Motor Show, we came across an interesting prototype device known as the Whill. Looking sort of like a giant pair of headphones, it could be clamped over the wheels ...

Bucking the trend of more software-centric winners at TechCrunch Disrupts in the U.S., a hardware startup named Whill took home TechCrunch Tokyo’s grand prize this week. Whill, an electric add-on that ...

Satoshi Sugi, the founder and CEO of Whill, was inspired to create a high-tech wheelchair by a neighbor. “He used a wheelchair, and he told me he had given up even going to the grocery store two ...