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Seven marathons, on seven continents, in seven days. Linda Carrier goes the limit while being a Type 1 diabetic since the age of fourteen.

Learn more about finding the right balance between modularization and coordination.

Intra-aortic pump powered by miniature brushless DC motors provides heart failure patients an aid to help hearts rest and heal.

Professor Robert Riener from the ETHZ talks about his project - the Cybathlon.

High-tech machines analyze human blood samples, detect coagulation disorders and thus help to save lives.

Angel Robotics is a Korean startup company that focuses on wearable robots for rehabilitation, Their Exoskeleton is competition proven.

A University initiative saves lives by developing and donating ventilators for lower-income countries.

Zurich-based startup MyoSwiss has developed a lightweight exoskeleton that works like an e-bike for the legs. It assists the wearer’s movements with electronic reinforcement.

The Cybathlon event, which was first held in 2016, will return in 2020 – with even more teams and more challenges.

A team at the University of Ljubljana wants to improove and build an enhanced version of an arm rehabilitation device.

Compensating fully for disability: this is the mission of Revival Bionics. Created in 2021 after 2 years of work, this start-up develops cutting-edge technologies in biomechatronics, in order to reproduce walking for people with amputated or paralyzed lower limbs.

Hanging laundry, making breakfast, emptying a dishwasher, holding a pan handle, finding keys in a bag while being equipped with a prosthesis? Meet Nathanaël Jarrassé, CNRS research fellow at ISIR and manager of the Smart ArM project, which is based on maxon technologies, before the Cybathlon Challenges 2023.

54% of children with cerebral palsy can walk unaided, 16% require special devices to walk, and 30% are not able to walk at the age of five. To address this situation, a team of research professors at Junia has been working for several years on the European research project MOTION, to create an exoskeleton for children with cerebral palsy who cannot walk.

How maxon helped a Dublin clinic cope with the astonishing increase in hair transplants during the pandemic.