Amos Winter
Associate Professor | Innovative Mobility Solutions for the Developing World
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Amos Winter is a pioneering engineer and innovator who develops accessible technologies for underserved communities. As an Associate Professor at MIT, he leads the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab, where his team designs off-road wheelchairs, portable water filters, and other products to improve lives in the developing world. Winter's TED talk on mobility solutions has been viewed over 1 million times, showcasing his ability to make complex technical challenges engaging and understandable for a general audience.
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The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
How do you build a wheelchair ready to blaze through mud and sand, all for under $200? MIT engineer Amos Winter guides us through the mechanics of an all-terrain wheelchair that's cheap and easy to build -- for true accessibility -- and gives us some lessons he learned along the road.
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