 There have been significant efforts over the past 20 years to develop stationary wheelchair trainer platforms that could enable wheelchair users to exercise as one would on a treadmill or bicycle trainer.Some devices have been created that could be used in conjunction with virtual travel and interactive gaming similar to an omnidirectional treadmill.In 2011, British inventor Andrew Slorance developed "Carbon Black" the first wheelchair to be made almost entirely out of carbon fibre

Recently, EPFL's CNBI project has succeeded in making wheelchairs that can be controlled by brain impulses.