Center for Neuroprosthetics

Technology deployed to support people with disabilities

Published:01.07.22 — EPFL students taking the Assistive Technologies Challenge class have developed personalized systems for patients with motor impairments.

Gian Luca Barbruni receives an award for his scientific paper

Published:13.06.22 — Gian Luca Barbruni, a doctoral student in the Integrated Circuits Laboratory and Medtronic Chair in Neuroengineering at the School of Engineering, had won the Best Student Paper Award for Electronics at the last International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST 2022) on Electronics and Communications.

Swiss Science celebrates Hansjörg Wyss

Published:18.05.22 — More than half a billion Swiss francs have been granted over 10 years to groundbreaking research projects in Switzerland within three different Wyss Centers or Academy in Zurich, Geneva and Bern. This makes entrepreneur and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss one of the major private donors for Swiss science. Wyss was celebrated as the laureate of the 2022 Gallatin Award of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce. The laudatio was given by Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin.

Exoskeleton device helps stroke victims regain hand function

Published:11.05.22 — Working closely with users and therapists, EPFL spin-off Emovo Care has developed a light and easy-to-attach hand exoskeleton for people unable to grasp objects following a stroke or accident. The device has been successfully tested in several hospitals and rehabilitation centers.

Time to get social: tracking animals with deep learning

Published:22.04.22 — Researchers at EPFL have made strides in computer-aided animal tracking by expanding their software, DeepLabCut, to offer high-performance tracking of multiple animals in videos.