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Proud Cyborg Athletes Compete In The World's First Cybathlon (ieee.org)
IEEE Spectrum reports:
Last Saturday, in a sold-out stadium in Zurich, Switzerland, the world's first cyborg Olympics showed the world a new science-fiction version of sports. At the Cybathlon, people with disabilities used robotic technology to turn themselves into cyborg athletes. They competed for gold and glory in six different events... [B]y skillfully controlling advanced technologies, amputees navigated race courses using powered prosthetic legs and arms. Paraplegics raced in robotic exoskeletons, bikes, and motorized wheelchairs, and even used their brain waves to race in the virtual world...
the_newsbeagle writes: While the competitors struggled with mundane tasks like climbing stairs, those exertions underlined the point: "Like the XPrize Foundation, the Cybathlon's organizers wanted to harness the motivating power of competition to spur technology development...they hoped to encourage inventors to make devices that can eventually provide winning moves beyond the arena."
the_newsbeagle writes: While the competitors struggled with mundane tasks like climbing stairs, those exertions underlined the point: "Like the XPrize Foundation, the Cybathlon's organizers wanted to harness the motivating power of competition to spur technology development...they hoped to encourage inventors to make devices that can eventually provide winning moves beyond the arena."
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It was a very inspirational event. Something we need in the world now. Kudos all around to the athletes and the people who put the event together.
So I could have had a chip put in my arm and I could have easily won this event?
Yes you may, but you need to get yourself a severe spinal cord lesion first...
Hail, hail Robonia!
A land I didn't make up!
The internet is not a series of tubes. It's more like a net. Or a network of computers. Or an internet.
Advanced prosthetics, exoskeletons and other transhumanist type things always get me excited. The next step beyond controlling machines to surpass our limitations is to (partially) become one.
Nice to see people who once had no hope of walking again (or any number of things) be able to give the finger to reality and do it anyways.
Have gnu, will travel.
A Cybathlon.
2 hours and no welcome to our cyborg overlords ? People, we cannot antagonize our cyborg overlords by not welcoming their terrible (but fair) justice.
they never asked for this
But it gave me lemon-lime
BBC Click - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9ry has the entire program on the BBC iPlayer.
Apologizes to those not able to access iPlayer.
Very interesting as they dig into the technologies and competitors as well as the actual races. If anything the coverage of the actual events was a bit light.