SMS News

The title of his paper and talk was “Human-​in-the-loop optimization of a multi-​joint wearable robot for movement assistance”

The talk given by Rachel van Sluijs was titled "3D detection of symptoms of sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder". 

The winners are Elisabeth Wilhelm, Francesco Crivelli (SMS-Alumni now working at CSEM), Nicolas Gerig (SMS- Alumni now working at the University of Basel), Marie-Rosa Fasser and Alexander Breuss.

about Visual and Haptic Error Modulating Controllers for Robotic Gait Training

Out of 50 entries, our SMS Spin-off was awarded as one of the top three pioneers.

The talk given by Fabian Just at the AUTOMED 2018 was entitled “Pilot Study: Effects of Arm Weight Compensation with the Rehabilitation Robot ARMin”. AUTOMED is a technical committee supported by the German Society for Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT) and the VDI / VDE-Society Measurement and Automation (GMA).

for their revolution in locomotion therapy.

with his talk about the novel BridgeT therapy.

at the SJTU Academic Forum for Doctoral Students

Dr. Urs Keller and Dr. Schrafl-Altermatt received ETH Medals for their outstanding Dissertations.

Two papers from the SMS lab won Awards at the IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics 2016 (Singapore)

Three SMS lab members won BANCOM 2016 travel awards

Heike was Postdoc in our lab

Amirehsan Sarabadani Tafreshi receives the "Best Student Paper Award" at the

Anna Pagel receives the best presentation award (first prize) at the

Robert Riener, Tobias Nef and Alexander Duschau-Wicke win the first prize of the 2012 euRobotic Technology Transfer Award for their development and commercialization of "ARMin: Robot-Assisted Neurorehabilitation of the Arm".

U. Götz, K. Brütsch, R. Bauer, F. Faller, R. Spoerri, A. Meyer-Heim, R. Riener and A. Koenig receive the best poster award at

Robert Riener, Manfred Kurland and Rainer Burgkart win the second prize of the 2011euRobotic Technology Transfer Award for their invention SIMone: Robotic Birth Training Simulator.

Alexander Duschau-Wicke, Andre Morger, Heike Vallery, and Robert Riener receive the best paper award 2010 of the Journal Automatisierungstechnik at

Christoph Hollnagel receives the best presentation award (second prize) at the AUTOMED conference in Zurich

For their paper Patient-cooperative strategies for robot-aided treadmill training: first experimental results

The medical faculty of the University of Zurich awarded Mark Schmiedeskamp a semester prize for his thesis in the fall semester 2009:

At the ETH-Tag 2009 on November 21, Tobias Nef received the ABB Research Award for his dissertation ARMin - Multimodal Robot for the Movement Therapy of the Upper Extremities.

Prof. Robert Riener receives a special appreciation of the

Heike Vallery received at the IEEE 11th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics

Ningbo Yu received the "2008 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad"

Alexander Duschau-Wicke received at the 4th European Congress for Medical and Biomechanical Engineering

Tobias Nef receives the “Hans-Eggenberger-Preis” for his dissertation about robot-aided arm rehabilitation,

For his presentation Are physiological signals related to clinical improvement of vegetative and minimal conscious state patients?,