2021

Congratulations!  The Sensory-Motor Systems Lab startup Akina recently won Venture Kick's second stage of financial and entrepreneurial support.

We wish you happy holidays.  Stay dynamic and safe, like our ANYexo, and see you again in 2022!

The Swiss Robotics Day is Switzerland’s most comprehensive exhibition on robotics for service sectors. The event is based on a historically successful conference format with a trade-fair feel. It brings together industry, researchers, innovators, creators, investors, engineers and students to exchange and share experiences, new ideas, technologies and together, envision solutions to future needs.

The call call is meant to accelerate the embedding of robotic applications related to the current situation including COVID-19 response, recovery and support in daily challenges that are still existing due to the pandemic as well as post COVID-19 challenges.

Cristina Gallego Vázquez, Alexander Breuss, Oriella Gnarra, and Giulia Da Poian from the SMS Lab and Julian Portmann from the Computer Science Department of ETH Zurich received two prices at the 48th Computing in Cardiology conference.

Jahn Graf presents the highlights of the Paralympics 2020, focusing on the performances, emotions and reactions of the Swiss athletes.  

Supported by Frieder, the allegedly fastest racing wheelchair was built for Marcel Hug. A report about this was broadcasted by 10 vor 10 on August 23.

In cooperation with the ETH Zurich (SMS Lab)  and the Swiss Paraplegics Foundation, the so-called ergometer was developed, which determines the optimal sitting position in the wheelchair.  

Join the Medical Robotics Week (MRW) 2021 – a highly interdisciplinary week dedicated to robotics research (virtually from 07.-11.06.2021)! Prof. Georg Rauter, Prof. Philippe Cattin and Prof. Azhar Zam from the University of Basel, together with Prof. Robert Riener from ETH Zurich, combine scientific achievements in robotics research with findings from medicine at the "Medical Robotics Week 2021" conference in Basel.

Welcome to Adrian who joined the SMS Lab as a doctoral student in April of 2021. Adrian's research focuses on upper extremity biomechanics and textile-based assistive robotic devices.

The Myosuit, which was developed by the SMS Lab and is now being sold by the ETH Spin-off MyoSwiss has received the second prize of the European Robotics Forum “ERF2021 Technology Transfer Award”. Awardees are Jaime E. Duarte (MyoSwiss), Kai Schmidt (MyoSwiss), Michele Xiloyannis (ETH Zurich), Luca Renato Traini (University Hospital of Zurich) and Robert Riener (ETH Zurich).

The scapula is essential for the function of the human shoulder. Different diseases or traumata can lead to a lack of movement capability and strength in the muscles that control the scapula. This weakness results in a reduction of the capability of the shoulder complex.

The movie «Ascent of the robots», which has been produced by Leon Riener in collaboration with ETH Zurich and the RSL and SMS Labs, has been nominated for the SCINEMA International Science Film Festival 2021 in Adelaide, Autralia. The SCINEMA is the largest Science Film Festival in the Southern Hemisphere.

She received the award for her paper, "Age-Dependent Asymmetry of Wrist Position Sense Is Not Influenced by Stochastic Tactile Stimulation", published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The paper was the result of a large collaboration between several labs from ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne, the University of Michigan and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Congratulations, Marie!

Documentary "The Ascent of the Robots" is now published. It was produced by Leon Riener and ETH Zurich, and tells the contributions of three science teams of ETH Zurich who took part in the “Art Safiental 2020”. Watch if they did manage to reach the summit with their robotic developments.