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At last, here is a somewhat detailed video interview appearing on the website of MEDICA, possibly the largest and most interesting trade fair for medical technology. In the interview, introduced by Dr. Matthias Ponfick of the Hospital for Spinal Cord Injuries in Rummelsberg and Claudio Castellini...

An interview on the basics of myoelectric prostheses and the EU-funded project IntelliMan has now been published in the magazine Klinik Management Aktuell (KMA). In this interview featuring Prof. Claudio Castellini and Fabio Egle, the basic principles of myoelectric prostheses, current comfort and a...

A new Ph.D. position is now open at the AIROB Lab! The position is directly funded by the Free State of Bavaria and it's an open topic position, meaning that the Ph.D. topic has not yet been precisely defined. Broadly speaking, however, your Ph.D. will revolve around merging intent detection and exo...

About a project we are still finishing at the DLR, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, phantom pain, prosthetic control, and much more going on in Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics. An instructional clip filmed at Claudio's second affiliation, including Mr. Markus Nowak, Ms. Mathilde Conn...

Lifting a glass, clenching a fist, typing a phone number with the index finger - state-of-the-art robotic hands can already do amazing things with the help of biomedical technology. However, things that work in the laboratory often encounter stumbling blocks when put to practice in daily life. Our t...

Mohammad Eid is starting to work on his Master's thesis on Functional Electrical Stimulation of the hand at the AIROB lab. Mohammad Eid received the B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering (5-Year engineering program) in 2019 from German Jordanian University (GJU), Amman, Jordan. As a part of his bachel...

Mr. Andrea Gigli, external Ph.D. candidate at AIROB@FAU and DLR, is visiting AIROB for one week. He'll be dealing with gathering data from amputated participants with a revolutionary unsupervised machine learning myocontrol system. Stay tuned! Mr. Andrea Gigli is a research fellow at the German A...

November 2022: Dr. Khairul Anam of Jember University, Jember, Indonesia is joining for one month and will be working on ML-based myocontrol of a low-cost hand prosthesis. Dr. Khairul Anam has been a senior lecturer at the Department of Electrical engineering, the University of Jember since 2005. ...

Today we received and unpacked our first "true" robots, which will find a happy home in the lab: two Franka Research III ! The arms are planned to be used for teleoperation, prosthetic simulation, haptic feedback and psychophysical experiments, as well as in general, for bimanual manipulation. ...