Robert Riener
Full Professor
Leads the Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, developing rehabilitation and wearable robots such as the Lokomat gait trainer and sensor-based patient monitoring.
Robert Riener's lab at ETH Zurich works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots. 69 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly T-RO and npj Digital Medicine. 19 PhD students. 99 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 18/ year
- at T1 venues
- 10%
- PhD students
- 19
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 99
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 23 papers2025 · T1 3
- 23 papers2024 · T1 2
- 18 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: T-RO, npj Digital Medicine, Science Robotics, Nature, RA-L
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots21 papers
- gait10 papers
- rehabilitation10 papers
- patient1 paper
- health sciences0 papers
Paper list
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20265 papers
- npj Digital Medicine3D pose estimation for scalable remote gait kinematics assessment (opens in a new tab)
- JACC Heart FailureRobot-Assisted Training Improves Physical Activity in Advanced Heart Failure (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsRobust learning framework for a scalable remote monitoring of autonomic dysreflexia: use-case in spinal cord injury (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AIROS 4 healthcare: a framework for physiological human sensing for social, assistive, rehabilitation, and medical robotics (opens in a new tab)
- npj Digital MedicineTowards trustworthy AI-driven cuffless blood pressure monitoring (opens in a new tab)
202523 papers
- JMIR Serious GamesA Resource-Efficient, High-Dose, Gamified Neurorehabilitation Program for Chronic Stroke at Home: Retrospective Real-World Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)AI in therapeutic and assistive exoskeletons and exosuits: Influences on performance and autonomy (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsAssessment of monocular human pose estimation models for clinical movement analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and MedicineAutomated Evaluation of Urodynamic Examinations through Local Linear Models: Validation on Spinal Cord Injury Individuals (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringChanges in Kinematic and Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters With a Biarticular Lower Limb Exosuit for Adolescents With Crouch Gait During Level Walking and Stair Climbing (opens in a new tab)
- TMLR (T1)Continual Learning from Simulated Interactions via Multitask Prospective Rehearsal for Bionic Limb Behavior Modeling
- ActuatorsDevelopment of a Force Feedback Controller with a Speed Feedforward Compensator for a Cable-Driven Actuator (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsError fields: personalized robotic movement training that augments one's more likely mistakes (opens in a new tab)
- European Stroke JournalEuropean Stroke Organisation (ESO) guideline on motor rehabilitation (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsHeading direction perception in the horizontal plane is strongly driven by rotational stimuli in healthy and impaired in vestibular hypofunction (opens in a new tab)
- NeurorehaHochdosierte Neurorehabilitation im häuslichen Umfeld (opens in a new tab)
202423 papers
- International Journal of StrokeA translational roadmap for transcranial magnetic and direct current stimulation in stroke rehabilitation: Consensus-based core recommendations from the third stroke recovery and rehabilitation roundtable (opens in a new tab)
- Physiological MeasurementBeat the heat: wearable-based study of perceived heat stress and physiological strain in Swiss track workers in a controlled climate chamber (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingCardiovascular responses to leg-press exercises during head-down tilt (opens in a new tab)
- Neurological SciencesCorrection to: Role of sleep in neurodegeneration: the consensus report of the 5th Think Tank World Sleep Forum (opens in a new tab)
- at - AutomatisierungstechnikDesign, development, and optimization of the Somnomat Casa: a rocking bed for sleep studies and nocturnal interventions in home settings (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AIEnhancing walking efficiency of adolescents with neurological impairments using an exosuit for ambulatory activities of daily living (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and BionicsHuman-in-the-Loop Personalization of a Bi-Articular Wearable Robot’s Assistance for Downhill Walking (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringKinematic Assessment of Upper Limb Movements Using the ArmeoPower Robotic Exoskeleton (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsMixed-variable graphical modeling framework towards risk prediction of hospital-acquired pressure injury in spinal cord injury individuals (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions of the JSMEModelling of parallel and series inflatable actuators for sequential activation control (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Sleep ResearchNocturnal vestibular stimulation using a rocking bed improves a severe sleep disorder in a patient with mitochondrial disease (opens in a new tab)
- Nature (T1)On human-in-the-loop optimization of human-robot interaction (opens in a new tab)
202318 papers
- T-RO (T1)ANYexo 2.0: A Fully-Actuated Upper-Limb Exoskeleton for Manipulation and Joint-Oriented Training in all Stages of Rehabilitation (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of NeuroEngineering and RehabilitationAssessing walking ability using a robotic gait trainer: opportunities and limitations of assist-as-needed control in spinal cord injury (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of NeuroEngineering and RehabilitationClustering trunk movements of children and adolescents with neurological gait disorders undergoing robot-assisted gait therapy: the functional ability determines if actuated pelvis movements are clinically useful (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and BionicsCompetitive Versus Cooperative Forms of Therapeutic Gaming With Subacute Stroke Patients (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and BionicsDevelopment of a Textile Integrated, Two-State Controlled Tremor Suppression Orthosis for the Wrist (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AIDo robots outperform humans in human-centered domains? (opens in a new tab)
- SensorsEstimation of Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Walking on a Photoelectric System: Validation on Healthy Children by Standard Gait Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Brain SciencesFeasibility of an Intelligent Algorithm Based on an Assist-as-Needed Controller for a Robot-Aided Gait Trainer (Lokomat) in Neurological Disorders: A Longitudinal Pilot Study (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous SystemsHow the CYBATHLON Competition Has Advanced Assistive Technologies (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Human-Robot Attachment System for Exoskeletons: Design and Performance Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AIMarkerless motion tracking to quantify behavioral changes during robot-assisted gait training: A validation study (opens in a new tab)
- Assistive TechnologyMovement therapy in lung transplantation candidates assisted by a lightweight wearable robot (opens in a new tab)
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