Mainstream gadgets can serve as assistive technology, but India’s tax and subsidy lists may leave users without support.

In hospital rooms and private homes across Korea, a new generation of mechanical caregivers is quietly taking over the heavy lifting of health care...

Keep track of important items, reduce motion sickness during your ride, create and edit notes right from your chat, and more.

A scientific team has shown that a new brain-computer interface (BCI) can allow people with vocal tract and bodily paralysis to convey both speech and upper-body gestures simultaneously. While BCIs ha...

Wandercraft now plans to initiate a US market launch of its exoskeleton for supporting upright movement in paralysed patients in September 2026.

Gamers with visual or motor impairments devise their own ways to keep playing, while Microsoft, Sony and ONCE roll out adapted controllers, video games and board games.

Neuralink's VOICE trial implant converts imagined speech into audible words using a patient's own pre-illness voice, but peer-reviewed data is still pending.

What some see as a privacy threat has become a life-changing accessibility tool for people with low vision.

The initiative will give those who cannot see ultrasound screens or print-offs the chance to trace the contours of their baby before they arrive.

Overground exoskeleton-assisted gait training effectively reduces spasticity and improves functional independence in individuals with SCI, with greater benefits observed at higher session frequencies. These findings support the integration of wearable powered exoskeletons into standard rehabilitatio …

Envoy Medical announces all 56 patients in its pivotal trial of the Acclaim cochlear implant have completed activation, moving closer to FDA approval.

With wheels and four legs, aid for visually impaired people represents push to expand AI and robotics into more applications.

A first-ever initiative will establish a specialized national alert system and bring together three different federal agencies to beef up the response if individuals with autism go missing.

A major human resources platform that many employers rely on is accused of unfairly using its AI hiring tools to screen out applicants who are older, minorities and those with disabilities.

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Karen Morad went blind five years ago, yet the 16-year-old Cairo schoolgirl felt like she could suddenly see again thanks to an app developed by her brother that described the safari in audiovisual.

A digital tool designed to assist with screening and diagnoses of autism successfully identifies the condition in children with co-occurring ADHD.

Researchers from Houston Methodist and the University of Cambridge have developed a flexible device that wraps around the spinal cord and can simultaneously interpret multiple signals related to movem...

UK-based assistive technology company Mavis Technologies has launched two new smart glasses designed to support people who are blind or have low vision. The new devices, called Mavis Viaro and Mavis I...

Robotic supports were once designed for clinical use, but researchers are now developing cheaper, smaller devices aimed at everyone — from people with ageing knees to 20-somethings seeking to climb mo...

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MIT engineers introduce an adaptive physical therapy system that uses generative AI to learn from physical therapists and interactively support stroke patients.

ZEALS D1 humanoid robot launched August 5 as Japan’s first hospital-certified service humanoid, built on Unitree G1 hardware the FCC barred from the US one week earlier over confirmed backdoors and Ch...

Assistive technology innovation is being championed in India by AssisTech Foundation, an ecosystem that supports startups like NeoMotion in developing life-changing products for persons with disabilit...

Brain-computer interface specialist Synchron has previewed an AI model that it believes will form the basis of a new generation of devices.

Disability Belongs™ partnered with the Consumer Technology Association in its production of a new report on AI and Accessibility.

New regulations designed to expand the rights of airline passengers with disabilities are being further delayed as federal officials consider rewriting them.

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

Wandercraft now plans to initiate a US market launch of its exoskeleton for supporting upright movement in paralysed patients in September 2026.

A Tesla policy advisor told DC lawmakers the company is building a 'purpose-built, wheelchair-accessible' autonomous vehicle in Texas, with no timeline.

A YouTuber rebuilt a Unitree Go2-W into a robot dog mobility chair for his dad with MS, giving him back trails and hills no wheelchair could reach.

Meet the innovators of the Royal Academy of Engineering's Advance programme.

A trackpad worn on the roof of the mouth: hands-free control of your devices, driven by the tongue. From Augmental.

DC robotaxi bill B26-0684 passed its first public hearing without a wheelchair-accessibility mandate, as Waymo backed the legislation and Uber lobbied against it. NHTSA simultaneously declared autonom...

Augmental's MouthPad, a hands-free trackpad operated by the tongue, revolutionizes digital interaction. As a wearable smart mouthwear device, it enhances accessibility and provides touchless control...