CYBATHLON

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MOVING PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY

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CYBATHLON 2024

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who made CYBATHLON 2024 unforgettable! To all the participating teams and pilots, your determination and innovations have inspired us. To our incredible volunteers and referees, your hard work and dedication ensured a seamless event. And to our amazing audience, both in person and online, thank you for supporting, cheering, and celebrating the spirit of inclusion and innovation with us. Together, we’ve created something truly special. Here's to pushing boundaries and building a more accessible future!

CYBATHLON 2024: Finals

Watch the highlights of CYBATHLON 2024 as pilots and their teams go head-to-head in the thrilling finals across all 8 disciplines. Relive the action, see the remarkable skill and teamwork in every race, and celebrate with us as we honour the winners in an inspiring medal ceremony. This is more than a competition; it’s a showcase of resilience, innovation, and groundbreaking assistive technology!

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CYBATHLON 2024 Jury Award

For the first time Jury Award was introduced at CYBATHLON 2024. One competing team from each of the 8 disciplines were honoured with the award.  This award celebrated exceptional innovation, usability, and generalisation—crucial features of assistive technologies that extend far beyond competition tasks to truly impact daily life for people with disabilities.

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CYBATHLON Challenges 2024 Highlights

This video features some of the highlights and favourite moments from the CYBATHLON Challenges 2024 that took place on 2 February, showing so many diverse types of assistive technology taking on discipline tasks and displaying pilots' tenacity and determination. The Challenges saw new teams, new tasks and new formats for many of the CYBATHLON disciplines.

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LEG Prosthesis Race: EXOPRO USTP

EXOPRO USTP is the first team from Taiwan to the CYBATHLON 2024 Leg Prosthesis Race! Representing the National Taipei University of Technology and Taipei Medical University, they are on a mission to make exoskeleton technology more accessible and affordable for those in need. Their dedicated pilot, Chang Wei Chieh, a Paralympic swimmer, embodies resilience and determination. With their innovative exoskeleton, "Quicker," they aim to empower persons with mobility challenges worldwide.

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Featured Discipline: Vision Assistance Race

The CYBATHLON 2024 introduces a new discipline for people with visual impairments. These participants have difficulties with everyday tasks such as choosing clothes or recognising products in the supermarket. Obstacles on the way to work can be dangerous. Intelligent visual aids should offer more independence and quality of life. The competition tests spatial orientation and mobility through tasks such as boarding buses and avoiding obstacles. The focus is on intuitive and reliable control under time pressure.

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Kilian Baur: Building CYBATHLON’s Complex Infrastructure

How do you build the infrastructure of a competition like CYBATHLON? In this interview, we talk about the unique rewards and challenges of organising, producing and livestreaming a global competition with CYBATHLON's Head of Technology, Kilian Baur.

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Overview of prosthesis components used by participating teams in the CYBATHLON Arm Prosthesis Race | © CYBATHLON

Research: How the CYBATHLON Competition Has Advanced Assistive Technologies

Since the first competition in 2016, the CYBATHLON has promoted innovations in assistance technologies. Teams are motivated to involve end users more closely in development and adapt devices to their everyday needs. The competition tasks present unsolved challenges for people with disabilities and compare the latest developments from research laboratories and companies worldwide. This overview describes the competition disciplines, their contributions to assistive technologies and the remaining challenges in user-centred development.

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21st October 2024

CYBATHLON partnership with Europcar and Stiftung Cerebral: Accessible transportation for our pilots

CYBATHLON has partnered with Europcar and Stiftung Cerebral to provide accessible transportation for pilots during the event from October 25-27.

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2nd October 2024

Charles Bara: Countdown to CYBATHLON 2024

Charles Bara tells us what we can expect from the competition, both in the stadium and beyond, and why CYBATHLON is so much more than just a competition.

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17th September 2024

The CYBATHLON 2024: Schedules and Races

Get ready for an unparalleled technological spectacle! The countdown to CYBATHLON 2024 has begun, and the competition schedule is now live!

About Us - Moving People and Technology

CYBATHLON provides a platform that challenges teams globally to develop assistive technologies suitable for everyday use, with and for people with disabilities. We promote design as a force to change – good and user-centred design is inclusive. We foster dialogue for greater inclusion that can break down barriers and make the difference between enabling and denying.

Initiated as a non-profit project of ETH Zurich, CYBATHLON is a platform for competitions and events that throw a spotlight on innovators of assistive technologies, partners and agencies that provide opportunities to place these new technologies in the hands of the people who need and use them.

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