Four young women sign 100% Tunisian feat: An intelligent wheelchair

By:Souleymane Loum 

Khaoula Ben Ahmed, co-founder of Gewinner, said: “The idea is to develop technology that permits people with reduced mobility to control their wheelchairs without even moving their hands. Even if they don’t talk or their voice is not very clear they can still move their wheelchairs using their thoughts or facial expressions.

“Focus to move forward, blink your eyes to move forward, a few simple commands transmitted to this tablet formatted by artificial intelligence to control the chair. A project which aims not only to restore a certain autonomy to individuals living with disabilities but also to improve their mental health,” says the report from the French channel. “Psychologically it is extremely hard to be dependent on someone,” added the co-founder of the company.

“An idea which earned them a place among the finalists for the Young Inventors Prize of the European Patent Office. The prizes are awarded at the start of July and this innovation could win up to 20,000 euros. The jury was also touched by the personal aspect of the project,” comments France 24…

“I had my uncle who had a disability, who had health problems and he had to employ a wheelchair to be able to move. He was unfortunately totally dependent, so the need was really before my eyes,” confides another inventor.

“The start-up will soon deliver its first four equipped chairs to an association which assists people with disabilities in the city of Sousse, in the east of Tunisia,” concludes the report.

See you on July 9 in Malta to find out if the four Tunisian engineers will win the First Prize. But they have already won for the service they have rendered to humanity, for the honour they have done to their country, Tunisia, about which we will talk even more in the four corners of the world and that has not no price.