2024

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.