iBOT Watching someone in a wheelchair struggling to get up onto a curb made us realize that it was time for the wheelchair to be completely reinvented. The iBOT gives disabled persons the ability to navigate any terrain and approach life with a new sense of dignity. The iBOT’s self-balancing technology allows the user to go up and down staircases, navigate difficult terrain and “stand” at eye level with the ambulatory people around them