Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, in collaboration with Phoenix Medical Systems on November 5, 2019 launched ‘ARISE’-the country’s first indigenously-designed standing wheelchair.
The assistive device helps the wheelchair-bound move from a sitting to standing position, and vice-versa, independently.
The wheelchair was launched at IIT Madras Research Park .
‘Arise’ was designed and developed by the TTK Centre for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2), headed by Sujatha Srinivasan, a profiessor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT-Madras.
The commercialisation of this standing wheelchair technology was made possible through support from Wellcome Trust, UK, via an ‘Affordable Healthcare in India’ Award, which brought together the research and manufacturing partners.
