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Welcome to Cybathlon, a competition for people with disabilities equipped with active and robotic technology. In this report, follow the preparations of former Paralympic athlete Christophe Huchet, leader of the French delegation, who will be fitted with a specially-designed motorised prosthetic arm.

After an accident that left him quadriplegic, the physicist Vance Bergeron decided to devote his research to functional electrical stimulation with the help of his former doctoral student Amine Metani. It is based on a technology that uses electromagnetic fields to stimulate specific areas of muscles. The two researchers jointly created the start-up company Circles which develops innovative solutions to make it possible for people with disabilities to resume a sporting activity. They designed…

The different respiratory metabolisms of humans engaged in sport provide inspiration for the manufacture of hybrid car engines that emit less CO2.

If our five “classical” senses exist to help us sound our environment, our sixth sense has more to do with the inside of our body. In this video, discover the latest research on proprioception, the sense of balance, of relative position and of agility, which plays a fundamental role in all our movements, whether for turning off an alarm clock in the morning, or for successfully making a free throw during a basketball game. The results of these studies could also help people with disorders that…

Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904), a physiologist and precursor of the cinema, invented some improved apparatus for measuring life processes and wrote a thesis on the circulation of the blood.His sphygmograph uses a sensor to measure arterial blood pressure. He also invented a cardiograph, the ancestor of the electrocardiogram which measures heart rhythms. Athletic effort can be measured via the variation and strength of the signal. The principles underlying these measurements have remained the…