On May 4th 2018, Yves Rossy (Jetman) visited Floreano Lab and tried the FlyJacket. Here are a few pictures of the visit.
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Auke Ijspeert, NCCR Robotics PI, gave a presentation at the annual World Minds event
WORLD.MINDS is a community of leaders in science, the arts and business that are driven by passion and curiosity. WORLD.MINDS meets once a year in Zurich for a closed-door Annual Symposium, and organizes several more intimate “Deep Dives” throughout the year. Auke Ijspeert, NCCR Robotics PI, gave a presentation during their 2018 Annual Symposium. …
Cybathlon won the Sports Technology Award 2018
Cybathlon won the Sports Technology Award 2018, in the category “Best Participation Technology”. More information on the award here.
MyoSwiss met W. A. de Vigier’s innovation and personality criteria
The jury of the W. A. De Vigier has revealed the top 10 candidates to proceed to the final stage of the competition. Besides their innovative products, this year’s selection laid emphasis on the CEOs’s personality. Five winners will be announced and each awarded CHF100’000. From over 220 submitted projects, the jury picked the Top …
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PackDrone received three awards during 46th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
The PackDrone received three awards during 46th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, Palexpo, 11-15 April 2018: Audience Award, Special Award of the President of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, Award of the President of the Association of Portuguese Inventors.
CYBATHLON 2020 Team Registration is open!
The date of CYBATHLON 2020 is fixed! From 2–3 May 2020 the gates will be opened for the continuation of the CYBATHLON at the SWISS Arena in Kloten near Zurich. Prepare yourself for an arena charged with passion and an emotion-filled audience that is inspired by the exciting races and challenging tasks in the six …
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Fotokite, NCCR Robotics spin-off, wins Round II of the GENIUS NY accelerator
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the winner of the $1 million grand prize from Round II of the GENIUS NY accelerator is Fotokite, a team from Switzerland. The initiative is one of the world’s largest business competitions focused on unmanned systems. GENIUS NY, a year-long business accelerator, awarded six finalist teams a total …
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NCCR drones can now be effortlessly controlled with pointing gestures.
NCCR drones can now be effortlessly controlled with pointing gestures. A video demonstration of the system developed by IDSIA has been published at the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2018) conference, March 5-8, 2018, Chicago, IL, USA. More info: http://people.idsia.ch/~gromov/hri-landing/
NCCR Robotics attended the European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2018 in Tampere, Finland.
The European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2018 hosted over 900 participants this year in Tampere, Finland from 13 to 15th March. NCCR Robotics was present with a booth, hosting two of its spin-off projects MyoSwiss and Foldaway Haptics. During the three days of this event, NCCR Robotics enjoyed a great interest from the conference’s participants that gathered around …
Development of VariLeg: first results and user evaluation from the CYBATHLON 2016
Just published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, this article by Stefan O. Schrade et al. presents the first results and user evaluation of VariLeg, an exoskeleton with variable stiffness actuation, from the CYBATHLON 2016. Read the article here. The article is related to the thematic series in JNER on the Cybathlon: https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/cybathlon as well as Prof. Gassert …
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