Author: Claudio Castellini

What a great time! We have been visiting the ETHZ, the Technical University of Zürich, namely Luca Benini's Integrated Systems Laboratory. Dr. Andrea Cossettini, our host, has shown us what one can achieve by integrating ultraminiaturised electronics, smart materials and a lot of fantasy. T...

Good news for our students, especially for those who need to sit the exams for IDF (Intent Detection and Feedback) and RAR (Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics), which are not being offered in this semester: the course material of the past semester is available for you to download and peruse. I...

We are proud to announce that AIROB has acquired a new project about upper-limb prosthetics called DexterHand. DexterHand is about creating a new generation of upper-limb prostheses endowed with fine intent detection for simultaneous and proportional control, and somato-sensory feedback for prope...

Glad to share some more exciting news: after Andrea's successful defense, Marek Sierotowicz, too, successfully defended his dissertation, called From Exoskeletons to Exonerves: Adaptive Support of Movements through Wearable Assistive Robotics. The judging committee, composed of professors from the F...

Last week Andrea defended his thesis, titled Interaction-Driven Approaches for Efficient and Autonomous Calibration of Myoelectric Controllers, in front of a mixed FAU/TUM committee. His final grade is 1.11, meaning excellent. Andrea, congratulations on behalf of the group, and best wishes for...

Finally, the promo videoclip of our department, Department Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering - AIBE@FAU has arrived: 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞…!

We are excited to share the news: our paper about intent detection in SCI patients declared complete is now out on Brain. In this work, mainly conducted at the Rummelsberg Clinic for Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, under the guidance of Dr. Matthias Ponfick, and by Alessandro Del Vecchio's team a...

The AIROB team will deal with stroke rehabilitation in the next 3 years, thanks to a project which we have just acquired. The project is called AutoAssist and is a cooperation between us, the IBMT Fraunhofer, Ottobock, NEEEU! Spaces, Deutsche Telekom MMS and Teigler GmbH. We are also extremely pl...