介绍： The Consumer Electronics Show or CES is a showcase for the world’s best technology. As expected, a big topic is how many things are now wired and online.

But CES is also focused on finding technological answers to questions regarding health, wellness and robotics. That’s a particular interest to people in ...

介绍： The Consumer Electronics Show or CES is a showcase for the world’s best technology. As expected, a big topic is how many things are now wired and online.

But CES is also focused on finding technological answers to questions regarding health, wellness and robotics. That’s a particular interest to people in the handicapped community. This year’s CES highlights how technology can make their lives easier, too. Like this device that plugs into any electric wheelchair, and moves by reading the user’s facial expressions. Creator Paulo Pinheiro says the Wheelie 7 was inspired by a smile. A few months ago, I was at the airport. I was waiting for my fly. And I saw this girl in a wheelchair. She could not move her hands or her legs. But she had a great smile, you know, those kind of smile that cannot stop to think about it. So we knew that we could use our experience in robotics and deep learning to translate that smile into comments to control her wheelchair. Users like Eric Ingram say there’s a bit of a learning curve, but the expression controlled wheelchair works. The wheelchair was a little awkward at first. Using facial expressions instead of other manual forms of movement, it was a little confusing. But once you use it for a decent amount of time and get comfortable with the controls, it becomes a lot more natural and easy to use.