{"id":10829,"date":"2014-04-29T22:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T05:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10829"},"modified":"2014-04-29T22:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T05:35:31","slug":"bionic-athletes-with-exoskeletons-robotic-limbs-and-brain-control-devices-to-compete-in-2016-cybathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/bionic-athletes-with-exoskeletons-robotic-limbs-and-brain-control-devices-to-compete-in-2016-cybathlon","title":{"rendered":"Bionic Athletes With Exoskeletons, Robotic Limbs, and Brain-Control Devices to Compete in 2016 Cybathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AvKHrDXvUsM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/> While traditional sports only grudgingly accept technological augmentation, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybathlon.ethz.ch\/\">2016 Cybathlon<\/a>, a kind of hybrid between the XPRIZE and Olympics, embraces it with both robotic arms. Disabled competitors (or pilots) will compete using assistance devices like powered exoskeletons, robotic prostheses, and brain-control interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve chronicled the continuous evolution of such technologies over the years, but they\u2019re still largely out of reach for most folks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/04\/23\/bionic-athletes-with-exoskeletons-robotic-limbs-and-brain-control-devices-to-compete-in-2016-cybathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub While traditional sports only grudgingly accept technological augmentation, the 2016 Cybathlon, a kind of hybrid between the XPRIZE and Olympics, embraces it with both robotic arms. Disabled competitors (or pilots) will compete using assistance devices like powered exoskeletons, robotic prostheses, and brain-control interfaces. We\u2019ve chronicled the continuous evolution of such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1513,1499,38,1516,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bionic","category-cyborgs","category-engineering","category-exoskeleton","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}