#RAZOR: Cybathlon: The championship for robotics-assisted athletes
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Is this the Olympics of the future? The Cybathlon championship sees man and machine merge in a global competition between 51 teams from 20 countries.
The event pits people of differing abilities against one another as they perform everyday tasks with the help of advanced assistive technology.
The Cybathlon events include a powered prosthetic leg race, powered exoskeleton race, functional electrical stimulation bike race and brain-computer interface race.
#RAZOR speaks to the scientists behind the technology and the athletes taking part to find out more.
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