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Cybathlon

This week Click comes from Zurich and reports from the very first CYBATHLON! A sporting competition featuring only disabled participants using advanced assistive devices.

This week Click comes from Zurich and reports from the very first CYBATHLON! The Cybathlon a sporting competition featuring only disabled participants who will be competing using advanced assistive devices including robotic prosthesis, brain-computer interfaces and powered exoskeletons. In essence it is an Olympics for bionic athletes!

The competition will feature six disciplines - a Functional Electrical Stimulation bike race, a Powered Leg Prosthesis Race, a Powered Wheelchair Race, a Powered Exoskeleton Race, a Powered Arm Prosthesis Race, and a computerised race for competitors with paralysis using brain-computer interfaces to compete in a computer game (BCI Race). The competitors, known as "pilots", can use both commercially available bionic technology and lab-developed prototypes. Medals will be awarded to both the athletes themselves and to the companies or institutions that create their bionics.

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Last on

Fri 4 Nov 2016 00:30GMT

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