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Robert Riener

Robert Riener

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Engineering and Technology
Switzerland
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
75
Citations
24480
World Ranking
736
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Robert Riener is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their work spans across the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with a focus on Biomedical Engineering, Rehabilitation, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Surgery.

Their research covers key topics including Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, Muscle activation and electromyography studies, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics, Spinal Cord Injury Research, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, and Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention.

Riener has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • "ANYexo 2.0: A Fully Actuated Upper-Limb Exoskeleton for Manipulation and Joint-Oriented Training in All Stages of Rehabilitation" (2023, IEEE Transactions on Robotics)
  • "On human-in-the-loop optimization of human-robot interaction" (2024, Nature)
  • "A textile exomuscle that assists the shoulder during functional movements for everyday life" (2022, Nature Machine Intelligence)
  • "Activity-based training with the Myosuit: a safety and feasibility study across diverse gait disorders" (2020, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation)
  • "Human arm weight compensation in rehabilitation robotics: efficacy of three distinct methods" (2020, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation)

Frequently publishing in specific venues, their work appears notably in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, Research Square, Sleep Medicine, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Riener collaborates regularly with co-authors such as Peter Wolf, Michele Xiloyannis, Florian L. Haufe, Alexander Breuss, and Anna-Maria Georgarakis.

They have contributed to at least one book published by Springer Nature (Netherlands), titled "New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics" (2022).

Best Publications

  • Augmented visual, auditory, haptic, and multimodal feedback in motor learning: A review

    Roland Sigrist;Georg Rauter;Robert Riener;Peter Wolf

  • Stair ascent and descent at different inclinations

    Robert Riener;Marco Rabuffetti;Carlo Frigo

  • Control strategies for active lower extremity prosthetics and orthotics: a review

    Michael R Tucker;Jeremy Olivier;Anna Pagel;Hannes Bleuler

  • Patient-cooperative strategies for robot-aided treadmill training: first experimental results

    R. Riener;L. Lunenburger;S. Jezernik;M. Anderschitz

  • Three-dimensional, task-specific robot therapy of the arm after stroke: a multicentre, parallel-group randomised trial

    Verena Klamroth-Marganska;Verena Klamroth-Marganska;Javier Blanco;Katrin Campen;Armin Curt

  • ARMin: a robot for patient-cooperative arm therapy.

    Tobias Nef;Tobias Nef;Matjaz Mihelj;Matjaz Mihelj;Robert Riener;Robert Riener

  • ARMin III --arm therapy exoskeleton with an ergonomic shoulder actuation

    Tobias Nef;Marco Guidali;Robert Riener

  • Robot-aided neurorehabilitation of the upper extremities.

    Robert Riener;Robert Riener;Tobias Nef;Tobias Nef;Gery Colombo

  • Path Control: A Method for Patient-Cooperative Robot-Aided Gait Rehabilitation

    A. Duschau-Wicke;J. von Zitzewitz;A. Caprez;L. Lunenburger

  • Patient-driven control of FES-supported standing up: a simulation study

    R. Riener;T. Fuhr

  • Identification of passive elastic joint moments in the lower extremities.

    Robert Riener;Thomas Edrich

  • Soft Robotic Suits: State of the Art, Core Technologies, and Open Challenges

    Michele Xiloyannis;Ryan Alicea;Anna-Maria Georgarakis;Florian Leander Haufe

  • Towards more effective robotic gait training for stroke rehabilitation: a review

    Andrew Pennycott;Andrew Pennycott;Dario Wyss;Dario Wyss;Heike Vallery;Heike Vallery;Verena Klamroth-Marganska;Verena Klamroth-Marganska

  • Model-based control of FES-induced single joint movements

    M. Ferrarin;F. Palazzo;R. Riener;J. Quintern

  • ARMin II - 7 DoF rehabilitation robot: mechanics and kinematics

    M. Mihelj;T. Nef;R. Riener

  • A Novel Mechatronic Body Weight Support System

    M. Frey;G. Colombo;M. Vaglio;R. Bucher

  • Biofeedback for robotic gait rehabilitation.

    Lars Lünenburger;Gery Colombo;Robert Riener;Robert Riener

  • A survey of sensor fusion methods in wearable robotics

    Domen Novak;Robert Riener

  • ARMin - design of a novel arm rehabilitation robot

    T. Nef;R. Riener

  • ARMin - Exoskeleton for Arm Therapy in Stroke Patients

    T. Nef;M. Mihelj;G. Kiefer;C. Perndl

  • ARMin - robot for rehabilitation of the upper extremities

    T. Nef;M. Mihelj;G. Colombo;R. Riener

Frequent Co-Authors

Spyros Kollias
Spyros Kollias University of Zurich
Peter Achermann
Peter Achermann University of Zurich
Roger Gassert
Roger Gassert ETH Zurich
Lars Michels
Lars Michels University of Zurich
Marie-Claude Hepp-Reymond
Marie-Claude Hepp-Reymond University of Zurich
Volker Dietz
Volker Dietz University of Zurich
Armin Curt
Armin Curt University of Zurich
Lutz Jäncke
Lutz Jäncke University of Zurich
Oskar G. Jenni
Oskar G. Jenni University of Zurich
Martin Buss
Martin Buss Technical University of Munich

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