Tag: Toyota Mobility Foundation
Braze Mobility named to Hub to accelerate innovation
June 17, 2024HME News Staff
TORONTO – MaRS Discovery District and the Toyota Mobility Foundation has announced the seven Canadian startups, including Braze Mobility, selected to participate in the Mobility Unlimited Hub inaugural cohort in Toronto. After receiving over 50 applications from across the country, MaRS and Toyota Mobility Foundation, along with their advisory committee, chose the seven promising startups, all of which have at least one member from their management team identifying with underserved groups (persons...
RESNA's Buning on 'impassioned' finalists
February 22, 2019Liz Beaulieu, Editor
LONDON - RESNA's Dr. Mary Ellen Buning flew to London in late November to help select the five finalists for the Toyota Mobility Foundation's Mobility Unlimited Challenge.Buning, president of RESNA's board of directors, was one of 11 judges to winnow down the field of finalists from 10 to five, with each finalist receiving a $500,000 grant to help them develop their idea further.“The thing that most impressed me was how impassioned they all were about their projects, and how some of them had...
Toyota seeks to overcome 'market failure'
August 29, 2018Liz Beaulieu, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - The Toyota Mobility Foundation has made a splash in the mobility market recently—with research that shows that current technology is outdated (and sometimes painful), and with a Mobility Unlimited Challenge that will help spur innovation.Here's what Julie Ann Burandt, global strategy and communications manager for TMF, had to say about how the foundation plans to reach its lofty goal of a “future where mobility is open to all.”HME News: What's Toyota's interest...
Survey: Mobility devices hamper employment
July 27, 2018HME News Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine - The majority of wheelchair users say using a mobility device has negatively impacted them while working or job hunting, according to a new survey.The survey, conducted on behalf of the Toyota Mobility Foundation, highlights the need for innovative assistive technology to help people with limited mobility succeed in the U.S. workplace, according to a press release.More than one-third (36%) of wheelchair users in the U.S. say they have been unable to work as a result of their device;...
Study: Outdated tech a pain for wheelchair users
April 25, 2018HME News Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine - Nine out of 10 wheelchair users in the US experience pain as a result of their device, according to a new study.The study, conducted by ComRes for the Toyota Mobility Foundation, polled wheelchair users in five countries. In November, the foundation launched the $4 million Mobility Unlimited Challenge to change the lives of people with lower-limb paralysis with “game-changing” technology."This research expresses the urgent need for innovation in this area,” said...