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Visit all the projects of this year's focus projects!

We are proud to announce that our submission, titled “Exploring Neural Biomarkers of Gait”, has received a jury distinction in the SNSF Image Competition! The awarded picture was presented in the category “Women and men of science,” and captures a moment from the gait laboratory within our StimuLOOP project, where we record neural activity in Parkinson’s patients.

Congratulations, Dr. Wälchli, for passing successfully your PhD defense today!

Camille Pescatore started her PhD at the Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory in April 2024. Her research is focused on including the brain in neurorehabilitation therapy after stroke, combining wearable, optical neuroimaging with non invasive brain stimulation.

We were pleased and honoured to welcome Prof. David Reinkensmeyer, who visited RELab for a 3-week stay. It was a unique opportunity to exchange on our many common interests in the field of rehabilitation technologies, and to intensely brainstorm on future projects. Thank you David for this stimulating visit!

Congratulation Chenhao Li for receiving the ETH Medal 2024

In challenging terrains, constructing structures such as antennas and cable-car masts often requires the use of helicopters to transport loads via ropes.  Geranos presents a specialized multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) designed to enhance aerial transportation and assembly.

Congratulation to our master graduates of the Robotic Systems Lab.

Honorable mention for the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award for paper “ANYexo 2.0: A Fully-Actuated Upper-Limb Exoskeleton for Manipulation and Joint-Oriented Training in all Stages of Rehabilitation” by Yves Dominic Zimmermann, Michael Sommerhalder, Peter Wolf, Robert Riener, and Marco Hutter in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.  

It was a pleasure to organize this year's medical engineering hackathon! Within one week, medical students of ETH Zurich engineered a gripper for a model exoskeleton using newly acquired knowledge in prototyping, electronics, programming, and CAD. Remarkable concepts were developed and tested in a CYBATHLON-inspired competition.