Cybathlon - Advancing Assistive Devices through Olympic-Style Competition
Each year, an estimated 34 million people worldwide need assistive and prosthetic devices to master their lives. Current technology is not ideal: wheelchairs cannot climb stairs, exoskeletons are bulky, and prostheses lack acceptance. Researchers from the engineering and medical sciences are on a quest for smarter devices ultimately piloted by the patients' minds. This symposium showcases the latest technical developments and introduces the Cybathlon, an Olympic-style competition, offering a new approach to advancing assistive devices by awarding teams of disabled “pilots” and scientists mastering tracks designed along daily life challenges.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
7:00 pm
external page swissnex San Francisco
730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
Program
Speakers
Robert Riener, Professor for Sensory-Motor Systems, ETH Zurich, Initiator of the external page Cybathlon
Homayoon Kazerooni, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the external page Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory
Jacob Rosen, Professor, external page Bionics Lab, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Henry Evans, external page Robotics Activist