2023

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.

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.

Clothes have long since ceased to be just fabric over our skin! Muscles to put on can be found at the Sensory Motor Systems Lab. Experience how robotics, smart textiles and fashion complement each other

The young researcher award at the "Robotics and Technologies for Neurorehabilitation" Congress was organized by the Instituto Clinica Quarenghi in San Pellegrino Terme, Italy. The title of the presentation was: "Somnomat Casa – The Smart Bed for Neurorehabilitation". A special thank goes to Doctor Pietro Salvi, Professor Stefano Mazzoleni, Professor Robert Riener, and colleagues Alexander Breuss and Manuel Fujis.

Watch Marcel Hug's race for paralympic gold in this thrilling film produced by Schweizer Paraplegiker-Stiftung. Sensory-Motor Systems Lab was involved in the development of Marcel Hug's wheelchair.

The presentation was titled “Improving sleep through closed-loop autotuning of a robotic bed using Gaussian processes” and was based on a submission together with Zelio Suter, Manuel Fujs, and Robert Riener.

The second CYBATHLON Challenges will take place on 29 March 2023! The CYBATHLON Challenges offer development teams the opportunity to involve people with disabilities in their development process from the very beginning and to test their assistance systems in a competitive situation. The Challenges is of course the build-up on the Road to 2024, the CYBATHLON global edition, which is to take place in October 2024.

In his master's thesis, Luca Hasler developed a new bicycle handlebar for Flurina Rigling at our lab: Customised gear and brake levers and optimal contact surfaces for her hands will facilitate her qualification for the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. The latest issue of the ETH Globe magazine reports on the project.

In autumn 2022, a film team from P.M. Wissen accompanied Marie Georgarakis and Adrian Esser to Michael Hagmann's home. Michael has tested the Myoshirt extensively, for the first time in activities of daily living. His impressions and feedback have now been broadcast on Austrian television.