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Marie Georgarakis receives the 2020 NCCR Robotics Best PhD Paper Award
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" published
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.
Spin Fund Grant to Florian Haufe and Michele Xiloyannis for the commercialization of “Project Play”
The National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics has awarded a Spin Fund Grant of CHF 100k to Florian Haufe and Michele Xiloyannis for the commercialization of “Project Play”. Project Play is a novel approach to movement therapy that connects the best of wearable robotics to the latest video games for an unprecedented training experience. The NCCR Spin Fund awardees are hosted at the Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Robert Riener.