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Starting the Rehabilitation Robotics webinars

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Good news for all people interested in knowing more about Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics!
Co-moderated by Claudio Castellini and Kathleen O’Donnell of Rewalk Robotics, a series of webinars about RAR will start in February, beginning on 12.2. at 14:00 CET with an open panel discussion on soft exo-suits.

We’re proud to have three world-leading experts in the field, Robert Riener, Lorenzo Masia and Conor Walsh, to throw in ideas and provocative thoughts. The webinar will be streamed live on youtube, where everyone in the audience will be able to field questions and start a discussion.
The webinar series is sponsored by the International Consortium on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR.

Check out the website as well as our external pageYoutube channel, subscribe for more events and join the Community!

SMS Lab News

Best Paper Award for Marie Georgarakis and Yves Zimmermann

woman wearing a shoulder exoskelleton

Marie Georgarakis and Yves Zimmermann were honoured with the 2022 Best Paper Award by IEEE Transaction on Medical Robotics and Bionics for their publication entitled “Supporting and Stabilizing the Scapulohumeral Rhythm with a Body- or Robot-Powered Orthosis”. The orthosis described in the paper and also patented assists the scapula on its physiological movement path by coupling the scapulothoracic rotation with the elevation of the arm.

ETH study by ETH study by Prof. Robert Riener, Luca Rabezzana and Yves Zimmermann is the first to comprehensively compare humanoid robots with humans

Agility Robotics humanoid Robot

A new ETH study compares 27 humanoid robots with humans and comes to the conclusion that while robots have better components, they are still not capable of achieving as much. However, according to the authors of the study, the machines are catching up.

New Investigator Award for Oriella Gnarra

Oriella Gnarra at World Sleep Congress

We are pleased to announce that Oriella Gnarra has received the New Investigator Award at the World Sleep Congress 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This award was granted to her, besides to 17 other young researchers, out of thousands of applicants.

Student Projects

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CYBATHLON

Enlarged view: Cybathlon 2020

In 2013, Robert Riener initiated the CYBATHLON and the SMS-Lab was in the lead to organize the CYBATHLON 2016.

As a competence partner, the SMS-Lab continues to support CYBATHLON.

Cybathlon Website

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