WELCOME TO RED PILL INNOVATIONS!
Why RED PILL? Yes... this is a Matrix reference.
We see the current problem facing people with disabilities similarly.
There's a heavy focus in the industry on psychological and rehabilitation solutions (Blue Pill); we propose to enable fun and exciting recreational activities through mobility ultra-performance (Red Pill).
For us, it's not about being at Eye level, it's about your Performance level!
Toyota Mobility Unlimited Challenge Submission Video
THE PROBLEM
There is a lack of mobility devices for People with Lower-Limb Paralysis that:
A. Enable a high level of mobility in terms of measurable performance,
B. And that develop complex motor and balancing skills,
C. While also being fun to use.
THE SOLUTION
The GoBOT will be a smart electric motorized self-balancing two-wheel platform (SAMD) that has been specially designed to provide mobility options to People with Lower-Limb Paralysis.
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Through the use of accessory devices, the GoBOT can be transformed into multiple modes to navigate specific types of terrain by a wide variety of PWLLP from fulltime wheelchair-users to ambulators to children.
WHAT ARE SAMDs?
Smart Assistive Mobility Devices
1. Assists the person's functional mobility in a quantifiable manner.
2. Assists in the development of the person's biological mobility capability.
3. Enhances the person's enjoyment of mobility.
4.Uses a person's wheelchair/crutches as the primary mode of mobility, does not replace it.
OUR DEVELOPMENT TEAM
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ERIK KONDO
Team Leader
Occupation: Real Estate, Small Business, and Conflict Management
Mobility Innovations:
The creation of the concept of Wheelchairboarding which entails riding and controlling a mobility device using a wheelchair wheelie. The innovation of devices for wheelchair skateboarding, longboarding, landboarding, snowboarding and skimboarding.
Wheelchair-User for 30 years due to a spinal cord injury at age 19. Extensive experience with a wide variety of mobility devices.
ARTHUR TORREY
Electronics, Mechanical Design and Fabrication
Mobility Innovations:
Design and fabrication of devices used by Erik for wheelchairboarding.
Design, development and fabrication of Adaptive Rock Climbing equipment.
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Wheelchair User for eight years due to a spinal cord injury at age 52. Experience with a variety of mobility devices. Active participant in the WheelchairDriver.com online community.
Using gear personally designed and built, has become one of two paraplegics known to LEAD climb, both indoors in a rock climbing gym and outside on real rocks. Tinkerer and repair person, working on, and fixing anything from motorcycles to appliances.
CAMERON SHAW-DORAN
Mechanical Design & Fabrication
C6-C7 spinal cord injury since age 18 due to a car accident. Wheelchair-User for 21 years. Avid monoskier and hand cyclist. Two years ski racing on the US Paralympic development team.
Worked with MIT professor designing monoskis. Hand built and delivered 37 Mono skis to individuals and disabled sports programs. Designed ski suspension plates for Bode Miller. Proficient drone pilot with photography and filming.
ULTRA PERFORMERS WE ADMIRE
NATHALIE MCGLOIN
Nathalie McGloin is the only female tetraplegic in the world to be racing cars. A self confessed speed freak and adrenaline junkie, she also plays wheelchair rugby (sometimes known as ‘murderball’).