AUTOMATIC STAIR CLIMBING WHEELCHAIR MARKET ANALYSIS

Market Challenges And Opportunities

Automatic Stair Climbing Wheelchair Market Driver

Increasing initiatives by the major players to develop innovative products is expected to fuel automatic stair climbing wheelchair market growth. For instance, in 2017, a team in Zurich introduced the Scewo. Scewo is self-balancing stair climbing wheelchair that can go up and down stairs independently and smoothly and provides features useful for navigating over obstacles. By using multiple rubber tracks, it can provide smooth and safe ride on the stairs. Furthermore, in 2015, a team in Zurich launched the Scalevo, the original prototype consist of two big wheels with a Segway-styled balancing system to navigate flat ground.

However, high cost of the automatic stair climbing wheelchairs is expected to hamper the market growth. For instance, in 2003, the subsidiary firm by Johnson Company in USA developed IBOT, a stair climbing wheelchair. The price of IBOT was so high that most of people could not afford it and it was discontinued in 2009.