Cyborg Yourself!
Medtec in our bodies
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TUESDAY 21st MAY 2019
DOORS OPEN 6.00PM, EVENT 6.30PM-9.30PM
The Alehouse
Universitätstrasse 23, 8006 Zürich
Dr. Robert Riener
Professor, ETHZ
About Cyborgs and the Cybathlon
Dr. Robert Riener leads the Sensory & Motor Systems lab at ETHZ and specializes in high-tech prosthetics and other assistive technologies. He is a main organizer at Cybathlon and has previously spoken about these topics at TEDx.
The Cybathlon is a new kind of championship, where people with physical disabilities compete against each other at tasks of daily life, with the aid of robotic technologies. The first championship did take place at the Swiss Arena Kloten, Zurich, in 2016. The Cybathlon does promote the development of useful technologies that facilitate the lives of people with disabilities. While there are great new technologies available that support people with disabilities, we are still far away from mimicking the human musculoskeletal system, or from even augmenting human performance to give us supernatural power over a large range of body functions and tasks.
This talk will be in English.
Marius Moisa
PosDoc, UZH
TBD
Marius Moisa is a Post-Doc at the Department of Economics and is responsible for developing and optimizing hard- and software solutions for concurrent brain stimulation (TMS, tDCS) and neuroimaging (fMRI).
He will give an overview of how you one can combine non-invasive brain stimulation methods (TMS, TES) and imaging (fMRI, DTI) to better understand which neural mechanisms underlie decision making.
This talk will be in English.
