These range from hanging clothes for contestants with prosthetic arms, to going up and down steps for powered wheelchair users.
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The Cybathlon challenges are designed to make the athletes-real humans with real disabilities-negotiate an obstacle course that consists of a number of daily tasks. "Some people-both disabled and not-are still very sceptical." "The main non-tech challenge for us is to find acceptance in the heads of the people, make them less afraid of hi-tech," he adds. This means, for example, that the device must understand the motion intention of the user. The user has to be the master controlling the device. "The technology must not dominate the user. "We need to bring technology together with the body mechanically, but also from a control point of view," he says.
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Scientists come together to help solve the single biggest challenge in the entire field, which, according to Riener, is finding the best way to connect human and machine. The main goal of the competition, Riener says, is to raise awareness of the challenges that people with disabilities are facing every day, as well as facilitate collaboration between assistive-tech researchers across the world. "I think we have highest density of good robotics researchers and neuroscientists." "Switzerland is the Silicon Valley of robotics," Riener tells Ars. A brainchild of Robert Riener, a professor from the Swiss science and technology university ETH Zurich, the event was held at a roofed stadium in the suburbs of Switzerland's largest city.
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The one-day Cybathlon was organised for the first time this year, and claims to be the first ever competition of its kind. So if you imagine the arm as the calipers, my arm and body are a living lever, and I can control the tension of the cable." The inaugural Cybathlon If you squeeze a brake lever, you have a directly proportional relationship to the calipers. The best way to explain body power is the way bicycle brakes work. "It's very close to a human hand in the way it operates, even though it doesn't have four fingers and a thumb. "It gives me the ability to be quicker, react spontaneously I'm in control all the time," Radocy says.