Cheryl Test Driving The Mobius Mobility iBot Wheelchair Abilities Expo
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- Cheryl Test Driving The Mobius Mobility iBot Abilities Expo 2022 Miami
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Well, this chair is one of the highlights that was shown at the Abilities Expo in Miami in November, 2022. This is the Mobius Mobility iBot, the stair climbing wheelchair. It's also an eye level wheelchair, and I'm going to show you in this video many of the things it can do.
Right now, the representative there is helping me understand that the first thing you have to do with the iBot is let it measure your center of gravity. So that's what the machine is doing at this point. It's leaning me forwards and backwards. It's getting up on two wheels and it's finding my center of gravity so that I can stay balanced up on two wheels. And that was quite a bit of excitement there. (Laughter.)
And next, we're gonna show how it moves about on the two wheels. And you'll notice as I lean forward or back, the chair actually moves forward and back. So if something happened and you couldn't reach the hand control, you could still move it in this position. And it was working on getting my center of gravity at that point.
Now we're gonna go around a big column here at the expo.
It's very smooth for two wheels. Big, large, stable wheels. And here I'm going to show the area that it can turn in. Very small, really about the same as if you were just spinning yourself around there on your own two feet.
Now she's gonna show me how to take it up to eye level. It goes up pretty high. So if you have tall friends, you can get right up there with them. You can reach something on a high shelf.
Then we're gonna go back down onto four wheels, here in a minute. So I'm going to show you how it, how it turns around on four wheels in just a second. This is how it turns in four wheels, right there. Still, it has a very small turn area. wheelchair
It's a lot of fun to ride.
And the other rep in the back there, in the blue shirt, in the other iBot, he's going to show in a little bit how to stair climb. It'll stair climb by itself. We missed some of that on the video, but you will see it coming down the steps.
And you will see the one that I'm riding and me go up the steps.
But right now we're going to go up a curb. And this is a very effortless way of going up a curb with a wheelchair. You approach the curb on four wheels, and you get it right up there and you put the little two front wheels on the curb.
And then you just push forward and it's going to go right up the curb. And she's explaining to me. There we go. That was pretty quick and easy.
Okay. Now we're going to talk about going down the curb, which to me was a little bit more scary than going up the curb. But I think that after you do it two or three times, that it would become habit and routine and it wouldn't be so scary. It just seemed kind of scary to roll up with your legs hanging over the curb there.
And then again, you just go forward and it senses that it's a curb and it just goes down smoothly. Watch this.
There we go, and I'm down.
So now she's going to talk to me about going up the steps. And we're gonna go over and go up the steps. But as we get over there, notice that the other representative had gone up the steps while we were doing this and he's gonna be going down the steps. So watch carefully here.
There he is going down the steps by himself. Now with this, you have to have a little body effort to go down the steps by yourself. With the, with the iBot, you do have to hold onto a railing. I think that's to help it balance as the two wheels are flipping over the other two wheels. And so he's down on the ground now, and then after he moves out, I'm going to get in position to go up the steps.
Wow Cheryl!!!! You looked so comfy driving that until going down the stairs. Scary fir me I think lol. It’s amazing what they can come up with now a days. I think that is such a game changer. I’m sure it’s lots!!!!!!!! Of money lol. Thanks Cheryl.
It is definitely expensive and strange.
What is the price of this wheelchair
It was very expensive, I think over $30,000 US
That’s cheap! my wheelchair was over 40 k and it didn’t climb stairs!