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IEEE Spectrum — AI
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AI Aims for Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation
Wheelchair users with severe disabilities can often navigate tight spaces better than most robotic systems can. A wave of new smart-wheelchair research, including findings presented in Anaheim, Calif., earlier this month, is now testing whether AI-powered systems can, or should, fully close this gap. Christian Mandel —senior researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen, Germany—…