Personal mobility "WHILL" like power-up parts installed on existing wheelchairs

For wheelchair users, wheelchair is an important means of traveling, but long distance travel is still hard. In order to solve such troubles, personal mobility will be able to run at 20 km / h by simply attaching to existing wheelchair "WHILL"Was developed.

Personal mobility starting from wheelchair users. - WHILL
http://whill.jp/


The WHILL project started in July 2010. It consists of 10 people including engineers, designers, marketers and so on. WHILL is "I give up on a convenience store 100 meters away."In response to the voice of a wheelchair user named" Wheelchair user ", it is a unit of type to be attached to a wheelchair on hand.

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The operation system is gathered at the part of the hand, and the motor and the attachment / detachment mechanism are equipped in the part to be attached to the wheel.

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The PV which can be known in 36 seconds looks like this.

WHILL movie 36sec - YouTube


This WHILL was also exhibited at the Tokyo Motor Show 2011, but the history of that has been summarized in the following 14 minutes picture.

"Next Generation Wheelchair WHILL" - YouTube


In this project, we set goals to 500,000 yen at "CAMPFIRE" recruiting business patrons, we gathered support amount over 880,000 yen exceeding the target. Currently recruiting patrons. If you support 500 yen, you will receive a thank you email, and if you support 30,000 yen it seems that you can test drive WHILL at some place in Tokyo.

WHILL "Personal mobility starting with wheelchair users" - CAMPFIRE
http://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/101