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We are delighted to announce that Dr Reto Togni and Stefan Villiger have been awarded a Pioneer fellowship for the development of their “Steering-by-Leaning” wheelchair design. The award comes with 150kCHF in funding and should support their work towards commercialisation of this excellent design. You can read the details here: https://retotogni.com/the-reagiro

The Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics (LMB - ETH Zurich) together with the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability (MOVCENTR - UNO Omaha) is organizing a 4-​day workshop from July 3 – 6 2023, converging experts in the field for deeper discussions and future international level efforts and collaboration for development and validation of biomarkers arising from nonlinear analysis of movement variability.

We are delighted to announce the release of the award winning "Stan" datasets at http://cams-knee.orthoload.com. These standardised data represent state-of-the-art knowledge on human knee kinematics and kinetics, including Vicon optical marker measurements, and force plate data measuring the ground reaction forces. The data are freely available for research, so download them here and give them a spin!

Outstanding doctoral theses at ETH Zurich are honoured with the Silver Medal. We are delighted to announce that Dr. Deepak Ravi has been awarded with the Silver Medal for this dissertation titled “Benchmarking human locomotor adaptation in time and magnitude: from perturbations to recovery”.

We are delighted to announce a new paper published on wear mechanisms of polyethylene (PE) for joint implants. We found that PE wear behavior is influenced by cross-shear and contact pressure. We then derived an empirical relationship for this, which we and other researchers can apply for numerical simulations of implant wear. We also propose a mechanism how and why certain characteristic surface features occur.