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Friday, March 28, 2014

Cybathlon will let athletes compete using exoskeletons and brainwaves in 2016

Cybathlon will let athletes compete using exoskeletons and brainwaves in 2016 | Mail Online: "From powered exoskeleton races to competitions using brain power, the first Olympics for bionic athletes will take place in Switzerland in October 2016.

The wearers of the assistive devices will be known as pilots and the technology they use can be available commercially or developed for them as a prototype in a lab. A bionic hand called the iLimb, which is commercially available from Touch Bionics is pictured

The Cybathlon will include races for competitors wearing prosthetic limbs and exoskeletons as well as a powered wheelchair obstacle course and a competition where people control an avatar using a brain interface."

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