CAF and GRIT Partnership Provides More Outdoor Access and Freedom to Individuals Including the Gift of the First 20 GRIT Junior Chairs on the Market SAN DIEGO, CA, April 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ...

The wheelchair provides invaluable mobility to those with disabilities, but there are countless places where it can't go. Trails, parks, beaches, woods … without a paved road or structured pathway, ...

For the cofounders of Cambridge-based Global Research Innovation & Technology (GRIT), a summer in East Africa changed everything. As MIT students, they were learning about wheelchairs in developing ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- A wheelchair designed at MIT is being heralded as the "mountain bike of wheelchairs." It's called the Freedom Chair and is the creation of a group of former MIT students, made right ...

SHEFFIELD — For those who can’t go into the woods without help, Sheffield has a solution. With a state grant, the town bought a “GRIT Freedom Chair” that can be borrowed from the Bushnell-Sage Library ...

GRIT has created the Freedom Chair, a wheelchair that allows its users to easily navigate any terrain. The final deadline for Fast Company’s Brands That Matter Awards is Friday, May 30, at 11:59 p.m.

Tish Scolnik was an undeclared freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006 when she saw a flyer for a class called Wheelchair Design for Developing Countries. The professor, Amos ...

After Jose Alvarez got hit by a bullet during a drive-by shooting, he was paralyzed from the waist down and had resigned himself to giving up one of the passions of his life. “I’ve always loved ...