Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Meet the Competitors Who Dominated the First Cyborg Olympics

Meet the Competitors Who Dominated the First Cyborg Olympics

IN POP CULTURE, cyborgs can fly, throw cars, and blow up buildings. Nobody did any of those things at the world’s first-ever cyborg Olympics—the Cybathlon in Zurich, Switzerland, held earlier this month—but the action was just as miraculous for a different reason. Using the latest bionic technology, disabled competitors paired up with prosthetics developers to accomplish tasks ranging from bread slicing to bike racing. Of the 59 teams, these three triumphed and scored top marks.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/people-prosthetics-first-cyborg-olympics/?source=Snapzu

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