A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

Rory A. Cooper is the founding director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a joint center of the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He is a VA ...

The founder of Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh, Cooper holds 25 U.S. patents on products ranging from a robotic arm that can be attached to wheelchairs to help ...

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