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RO-MAN 2021 Roboethics Competition: Bringing ethical robots into the home

In 1984, Heathkit presented HERO Jr. as the first robot that could be used in households to perform a variety of tasks, such as guarding people’s homes, setting reminders, and even playing games. Following this development, many companies launched affordable “smart robots” that could be used within the household. Some of these technologies, like Google …

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#328: Inside Cybathlon, with Anni Kern

Robohub Podcast · Inside Cybathlon Kate speaks with Anni Kern, Head of Communication, strategy, and teams at Cybathlon for over four years. She describes the motivation and concepts for the Cybathlon organizations to develop a common platform to remove barriers between people with disabilities, technology developers, and the public. Anni also describes the specifics of …

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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered leg prosthesis race (with interview)

Winning team Circleg Finishing this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the startup Circleg from Switzerland. We also had the chance to interview them (see the end of this post). In this race, pilots wearing a leg prosthesis from five teams had to complete a circuit using any kind of …

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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered wheelchair race (with interview + story of pilot)

Winning team: HSR Enhanced with pilot Florian Hauser In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the HSR Enhanced team from the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST). In addition, we interviewed their team leader of this year, Christian Bermes. In this race, pilots with a severe …

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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered exoskeleton race (with interview)

Winning team: Angel Robotics with pilot Byeong-Uk Kim The last edition of CYBATHLON took place on 13-14 November, 2020. This competition, created by ETH Zurich and run as a non-profit project, aims to advance in the research and development of assistive technology by involving developers, people with disabilities, and the general public. We had the …

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