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In 2016, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology hosted the inaugural CYBATHLON, the world's first Bionic Olympics
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The championship is designed to promote the development of new and improved assistive technologies
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Each team consists of both a pilot and a group of engineers and designers
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Held every four years, teams from all over the world arrive in Zurich to compete in the use of bionic-assisted prosthetics
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These races include the use of exoskeletons, robotic prosthetic limbs and electric wheelchairs
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Competitors also use technology that stimulates paralysed muscles, for example allowing them to race recumbent bikes
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Brain-computer interfaces that allow quadriplegic competitors to control digital avatars. and vision assistance technologies
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This is Nicholas Houget, who along with Team Bionico hand, has set a new record for the fastest six-cup stack
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completed by someone using an arm prosthesis. Nicholas lost his right hand in a factory accident when he was 18 years old After years of frustration with existing prosthetics he founded My Human Kit a non which develops and freely shares the designs for bionic prostheses
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This prosthetic uses both 3D printed components as well as standard off-the-shelf part
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Nicholas set the record in 33 seconds during the finals of the Cybathlon 2024 arm prosthesis race
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Chung-Wong Kim piloted this exoskeleton with Team Caste, setting a new record for the fastest walking speed achieved by a paraplegic person in a powered exoskeleton
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The exoskeleton is a prototype called the Walk-On Suit F1, developed at the Caste Exoskeleton Lab in South Korea
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The exoskeleton achieves an impressive 0.23 meters per second, that's 0.5 miles per hour or 0.82 kilometers per hour
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for the 2024 sidebathlon 67 competitors from 24 countries took part in the competition
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both in person and at seven remote hubs all around the world
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making it the world's largest competition for bionic athletes
