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Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics

The Cybathlon aims to help disabled people navigate the most difficult course of all: the everyday world.

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Reardon, S. Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics. Nature 536, 20–22 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/536020a

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