Willift

WILLIFT makes daily tasks easier for patients with limited mobility in their upper limbs. Williams, one of our team members, uses a wheelchair to get around, but drinking, eating and brushing his teeth are only possible with the help of the nursing staff around him. These daily gestures are evidence of the loss of autonomy that people with upper limb motor difficulties experience.

With WILLIFT, we are developing a technical solution to help these people regain their independence: a motorised armrest integrating planar and vertical movement. We are proposing a prototype that can be easily and non-stigmatisingly integrated into different environments: wheelchair, chair, bed, bathroom, etc. The control of the motorised armrest is based on the detection of the user’s intention of movement, allowing an adjustable degree of assistance to be provided, adapting to the patient’s abilities, particularly to their evolution over time (rehabilitation, degenerative diseases, etc.).