LUCI wants to bring power mobility into the 21st century LUCILUCI, a powerchair add-on developed by entrepreneurial brothers Jered and Barry Dean, is finally bringing smart autonomous technology to a stagnant sector starved of innovation for decades. This includes enabling users to monitor and share data like their chair’s charging status and location with friends and family. The MYLUCI portal is also integrated with Amazon Alexa, so users can check their battery power via voice command. Keeping it in the familyLUCI’s development journey began back in 2017 when Nashville-based songwriter Barry Dean started looking for a safer, smarter wheelchair for his daughter Katherine (20), who was born with cerebral palsy. “Some people might say we are a disrupter for the industry,” says Barry Dean.

Source: Forbes July 14, 2021 09:56 UTC