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State-of-the-art technology seen at CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series Japan 2019
Team Fortississimo’s powered wheelchair Fortississimo, the third winner of the CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series Japan 2019 is a team created by the Faculty of Science and Technology of Keio University, in Japan. The concept of the team literally refers to the team name: Fortississimo stands for “playing louder” in musical notation, and it means for the…
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The CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series to be held in Japan in May
Team RT-Movers JPN ETH Zürich/Alessandro Della Bella While the Olympics and Paralympics are contests of human abilities and strictly restrict the involvement of devices, the CYBATHLON is a competition in which technologies complement disabilities, symbolizing the future of the relationship between humans and technology. The CYBATHLON poses to society the question; “to what extent can…