“For a world without barriers”
The world's premier championship for bionic athletes — organized by ETH Zurich — where people with physical disabilities compete using the most advanced assistive technologies on the planet.
2024
Year Competed
EXO
Race Discipline
#1
Greek Team
ETH
Host
CYBATHLON is a unique international championship where individuals with physical disabilities — known as “pilots” — use state-of-the-art assistive technologies to overcome real-world challenges. Unlike traditional sporting events, CYBATHLON focuses on precision, functionality, and human-machine collaboration, showcasing how advanced robotics can improve everyday life.
Its mission is to accelerate innovation, transform societal perceptions of disability, and help create a truly barrier-free world.
Proudly joining this inspiring global movement is the HERMES Team, bringing their cutting-edge engineering expertise to the highly demanding Exoskeleton Race. In this discipline, pilots with complete paraplegia navigate complex daily obstacles—such as stairs and uneven terrain—using powered robotic devices.
The team competes with their proprietary creation, the HERMES EXO. Engineered for maximum mobility and dynamic stability, this exoskeleton aims to restore true autonomy to its user. By competing on the CYBATHLON stage, the HERMES Team showcases the ultimate synergy of robotic innovation and the unyielding human spirit, proving that technology and determination can entirely redefine physical limitations.
Pilots wearing powered exoskeletons complete an obstacle course testing ramps, stairs, doors, and uneven terrain. Our primary discipline — where HERMES EXO competes.
Paraplegic pilots use functional electrical stimulation to ride a bike through muscle activation, showcasing the intersection of neuroscience and engineering.
Athletes with upper-limb amputations use bionic arms to complete dexterous manipulation tasks, demonstrating precision in human-machine interfaces.
2024
CYBATHLON · Zurich
HERMES Team became the first Greek university engineering team to compete in the CYBATHLON Exoskeleton Race, representing Greece on the global stage of assistive robotics innovation.