CYBATHLON 2024

CYBATHLON

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MOVING PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY

Highlights of CYBATHLON 2024: Witness Excellence

The third edition of CYBATHLON is now part of history. Held from October 25–27, 2024, at the SWISS Arena in Zürich, the event brought together 67 teams from 24 nations to compete in eight disciplines, showcasing state-of-the-art assistive technologies designed to help complete everyday tasks.

CYBATHLON 2024: A Celebration of Determination, Ingenuity, Resilience and User-Centered Assistive Technologies
CYBATHLON 2024 Thank You | © CYBATHLON

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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Jury Award CYBATHLON 2024 | © CYBATHLON

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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CYBATHLON in 2024: A Year of Innovation, Inclusion, and Impact

The year 2024 marked a massive chapter in the history of CYBATHLON, a pioneering initiative by ETH Zürich aimed at advancing assistive technologies and promoting social inclusion for people with disabilities. From the CYBATHLON Challenges 2024 to the grand CYBATHLON 2024 event, this year showcased groundbreaking innovation, global collaboration, and a shared commitment to improving lives. As we approach the end of the year, here’s a look back at the unforgettable milestones that shaped CYBATHLON in 2024.

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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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20th December 2024

CYBATHLON in 2024: A Year of Innovation, Inclusion, and Impact

As we approach the end of the year, here’s a look back at the unforgettable milestones that shaped CYBATHLON in 2024.

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17th December 2024

Beyond the Bronze: Insights from the POLIMI Team

The POLIMI Team achieved a remarkable third place at the CYBATHLON 2024 FES-bike race, with pilot Andrea excelling in both performance and collaboration.

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Team PULSE Racing after the FES finals! | © CYBATHLON
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29th November 2024

From Amsterdam to the Podium: PULSE Racing’s Silver Ride at CYBATHLON 2024

PULSE Racing celebrated an incredible achievement: second place at CYBATHLON 2024 in Zurich!

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67 teams from 24 countries met for #Cybathlon, a competition to develop #AssistiveTechnology solutions for people with #Disabilities. Robotic legs, motorized wheelchairs, and #Exoskeleton tech are on full display! https://t.co/hry97CIUhE

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Assistance robots are the future for people who need daily care due to limited mobility or wheelchair-bound. In this work, Carmen Scheidemann, Andrei Cramariuc and Marco Hutter from Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zürich present a mouth joystick control interface, augmented with voice commands, for an independent quadrupedal assistance robot with an arm, which sets the basis for a platform that could help and provide independence in the everyday lives of people in wheelchairs. They validate and show ...

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Congratulations to German Aerospace Center (DLR) Team EDAN and their incredible pilot, Mattias Atzenhofer, for winning first place in the Assistance Robot Race at CYBATHLON 2024! With their groundbreaking EDAN robotic system, combining an electric wheelchair and DLR's lightweight, AI-powered robotic arm, they demonstrated how assistive technology can empower people with severe physical disabilities to tackle everyday challenges with independence and ease. From opening doors to biting into an app ...

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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