2024

In 2025, fourteen remarkable individuals from the fields of science, media, business, and culture will come together at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles to address issues related to the annual topic “Across Boundaries.”

In recognition of the extraordinary work in the field of Biorobotics Prof. Dr. Robert Riener receives the Key Innovator Award from the IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. With this award, Robert Riener is honored as a leading innovator for groundbreaking research, pioneering advancements, and significant contributions to the development of biorobotic systems and technologies.

The Internation Consortium of Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) will organize a workshop about “Translating Rehabilitation Robotics into Clinical Applications”. The workshop will take place in the frame of the IEEE Biorobotics Conference in Heidelberg, Germany, on Sept. 1^st, 9:00-13:00. Organizers are Robert Riener, Jon Sensinger, and Meret Branscheidt.

Alexander Breuss has been awarded a BRIDGE Proof of Concept Fellowship. Out of 35 applicants, he was one of seven chosen to receive CHF 130,000 for a 12-month period dedicated to the commercialization of the Somnomat Casa. The Somnomat Casa is an innovative rocking bed designed to enhance sleep quality and address various sleep disorders and was developed in collaboration with his colleague Manuel Fujs.

At the opening ceremony of the ETH Gloria Cube, Chiara Basla from SMS Lab presented the latest version of the MyoSuit for children. Find out more in the video from 1:42.

This year IEEE RAS ICRA started great with one of our papers selected as best paper in the Assistive Systems Workshop icra2024 ROS to Healthcare is our effort to standardize biosignals, biometrics and human model communication in robotics and healthcare from our teams at SCAI Lab , SMS Lab, and SRD Lab from Tohoku University. Congratulation to all the team! Diego Paez, Jose Salazar, Ankit Ravankar, Oriella Gnarra, Jorge Peña Queralta and Alexander Breuss.

Honorable mention for the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award for paper “ANYexo 2.0: A Fully-Actuated Upper-Limb Exoskeleton for Manipulation and Joint-Oriented Training in all Stages of Rehabilitation” by Yves Dominic Zimmermann, Michael Sommerhalder, Peter Wolf, Robert Riener, and Marco Hutter in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.  

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.