New wheelchair lets you cruise through town standing


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  • Friday, 16 Sep 2016

An employee stands on a wheelchair developed by Israeli company UPnRIDE Robotics, tthat enables paralysed people with limited function in their arms to stand upright, during a demonstration at their offices in Yoqneam, Israel September 6, 2016. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

YOQNEAM, Israel: Israeli technology startup UPnRIDE Robotics is launching an innovative upright, self-stabilising wheelchair at a medical conference in Germany next month and the company hopes the device will hit the market next year. 

Before then, UPnRIDE needs to pass two clinical trials, one with the US veteran association in New York, to help it get regulatory approval and ensure health insurance companies can assist customers with the hefty price tag. 

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