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A Scottish innovator who vowed to “revolutionise the wheelchair” as a teenager has won one million dollars to make his dream a reality. Andrew Slorance, 51, from Nairn, Scotland, saw off competition from the US, Japan and Italy to win Toyota’s Mobility Unlimited Challenge with his Phoenix i wheelchair. The intelligent chair automatically adjusts its centre of gravity to ensure the user can be agile and stable at the same time. The competition, from the Toyota Mobility Foundation and Nesta Challenges, was launched in 2017 in an effort to encourage innovation in assistive technolo...

The Mobility Unlimited Challenge was launched three years agoalongside a $4m (£3m) pledge to a range of teams around the world to help change the lives of people with lower-limb paralysis. As a wheelchair user himself, the Scottish winner of the challenge, Andrew Slorance, 51, was acutely aware of how tipping over backwards was the primary cause of accidents for wheelchair users - and the Phoenix i wheelchair aims to end this. Image: Andrew Slorance (L) invented the new wheelchair with his company Tipping over happens "because the wheelchair has a fixed centre-of-gravity, bu...

A SCOT who vowed to “revolutionise the wheelchair” after he broke his back as a teenager has won $1 million to help make his dream a reality. Andrew Slorance, 51, from Nairn, Scotland, saw off competition from the US, Japan and Italy to win Toyota’s Mobility Unlimited Challenge with his Phoenix i wheelchair. The intelligent chair automatically adjusts its centre of gravity to ensure the user can be agile and stable at the same time. The competition, from the Toyota Mobility Foundation and Nesta Challenges, was launched in 2017 in an effort to encourage innovation in assistive te...