CYBATHLON 2016

Cybathlon is a championship with handicapped racing pilots using advanced and novel assistive robotic technologies. The competitions will include the most modern powered knee prostheses, wearable hand prostheses, powered exoskeletons, powered wheelchairs, electrically stimulated muscles and novel brain-computer interfaces. Robotic and bionic devices can include commercially available products provided by companies, but also prototypes developed by research labs. There will be two medals for each competition, one for the pilot, who is driving the device, and one for the provider of the device.



The main objectives of the Cybathlon are
· to promote the development of novel assistive systems and reinforce the scientific exchange,
· to present the public the challenges and chances of assistive technologies, and
· to enable handicapped pilots to compete in races.

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