Robotics
The ultimate test for the wheelchair of the future
If there is one team that epitomizes all that the Cybathlon competition represents, it is Team Scewo. ...
Robotics
Robotics help athlete walk again
Paraplegic and Cybathlon pilot, Thomas Krieg is an accomplished sportsman who is taking bionic tech to a new level. ...
Climate change, Food, Sustainable Development Goals
Tackling the challenges of sustainable cocoa farming
Changing farming methods to better withstand shocks will be crucial to the cocoa industry, and will ensure that chocolate fans around the world can sustainably indulge th...
Future of Work
Supercharging the Internet from Space
Satellites flying only a few hundred kilometers above the Earth are being designed to boost the power of the internet and connect people in all areas of the world. ...
Robotics
Tech makes bike racing possible for those with spinal cord injury
Technological advancement enabled Greg McClure to race a bike competitively in the world’s first Cybathlon, more than a decade after an accident injured his spinal cord...
Future of Work, Machine learning
This man can control an avatar with his mind
Despite being paralyzed, this man can control the motion of an on-screen avatar in a specially developed video game called, “BrainDriver.”...
Climate change, Global
A student trip to the Arctic ice: ‘This beautiful world may not exist in 20 years’ time’
ETH Zurich student Mauro Hermann spent a month in the Arctic setting up a climate research city on a shelf of ice up to 3m thick. ...
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