--- title: AI Wheelchair Technology Moves Closer to Reality | daily.dev description: The Living Heart Project, launched in 2014 by Dassault Systèmes, has developed physics-based virtual twins of the human heart and other organs to guide... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-wheelchair-technology-moves-closer-to-reality-hwtien4mn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Wheelchair Technology Moves Closer to Reality | daily.dev og:description: The Living Heart Project, launched in 2014 by Dassault Systèmes, has developed physics-based virtual twins of the human heart and other organs to guide... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-wheelchair-technology-moves-closer-to-reality-hwtien4mn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HWTIEN4mn.png og:image:alt: AI Wheelchair Technology Moves Closer to Reality og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Wheelchair Technology Moves Closer to Reality **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Living Heart Project, launched in 2014 by Dassault Systèmes, has developed physics-based virtual twins of the human heart and other organs to guide surgical planning and clinical decisions. Built on industrial-grade simulation software and personalized using patient MRI, CT, and echocardiogram data, the technology has now guided nearly 2,000 procedures at Boston Children's Hospital. In 2024, the project completed an FDA-sponsored in silico clinical trial initiative, establishing the first FDA-led guidelines for virtual patient trials. Generative AI now enables rapid creation of large virtual patient cohorts, reducing the time and cost of drug and device trials. The project has expanded beyond the heart to model lungs, liver, brain, eyes, and gut, moving toward a unified modular virtual human platform. Future directions include real-time updates from wearables and patient-facing tools for understanding treatment outcomes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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