{"id":23474,"date":"2014-10-09T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=23474"},"modified":"2014-10-08T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:34:08","slug":"born-to-design-grit-wheelchair-improves-mobility-for-the-physically-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2014\/10\/born-to-design-grit-wheelchair-improves-mobility-for-the-physically-disabled.html","title":{"rendered":"Born to Design: GRIT wheelchair improves mobility for the physically disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the physically disabled, a functional wheelchair can be a lifeline to a more productive life. Realizing that poor road conditions were hindering the mobility of wheelchair-dependent people in developing nations, the designers at Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT) used SOLIDWORKS to develop a radically new lever-based design.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uooNlA6n5pA?list=UU0NX5l_sS-y14xc9XtPzsPw\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borntodesign.tv\/?scid=sm_bl_btd_grit109\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch the latest episode of Born to Design<\/strong><\/a> to meet members of the former MIT Mobility Lab who created a wheelchair that\u2019s improving mobility and changing lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borntodesign.tv\/?scid=sm_bl_btd_grit109\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23475 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/BTD_GoGrit_525x166_v1.jpg\" alt=\"BTD_GoGrit_525x166_v1\" width=\"525\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/BTD_GoGrit_525x166_v1.jpg 525w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/BTD_GoGrit_525x166_v1-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/BTD_GoGrit_525x166_v1-120x37.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the physically disabled, a functional wheelchair can be a lifeline to a more productive life. Realizing that poor road conditions were hindering the mobility of wheelchair-dependent people in developing nations, the designers at Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT)<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2014\/10\/born-to-design-grit-wheelchair-improves-mobility-for-the-physically-disabled.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":23476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[2083,1656,1658],"class_list":["post-23474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-born-to-design","tag-born-to-design","tag-grit","tag-leveraged-freedom-chair"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}