This *Prototype* Toyota Mountain Goat Wheelchair Replacement has shown up in two of my morning links today...

[SorellaLaBefana]

So took that as A Sign that I needed to share it. The clip does not show it doing the many marvelous things it is touted as being capable of doing—instead it is basically just turning in circles on a concrete floor

¡BUT! it does point the way to a Much Better future for wheelchair bound people, since, although wheels allow mobility, there are simply so many barriers to the wheel-mobile. A simple curb at a crossing adds an insurmountable barrier to a wheel.

This is a way forward!

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mountain-goat-inspired-robot-offers-a-new-world-of-mobility-to-the-wheelchair-bound-watch

These famous dam climbing goats in Italy show what is possible if you aren't held back by wheels