Category: Cybathlon

  • State-of-the-art technology seen at CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series Japan 2019

    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…

  • The CYBATHLON Wheelchair Series to be held in Japan in May

    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…