"Cybathlon" Invites Parathletes to Compete in Their Superhuman Prosthetics
  and Exoskeletons 
From: Slate Future Tense - 03/26/2014
By: Lily Hay Newman

Cybathlon 2016 is a championship for robot-assisted parathletes. If some part
of your body is assisted or moved by external power - for example, a robotic
prosthetic or an exoskeleton - you can compete. Unlike in the Olympics and
the Paralympics, robotic devices and other futuristic mechanisms are
basically required at Cybathlon, especially if they lend superhuman powers.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:21) at:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/26/cybathlon_enourages_parathletes_to_compete_with_their_superhuman_prosthetics.html

Links:
Cybathlon 2016
http://www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/

Disciplines
http://www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/?page_id=10

Steel Yourself
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/superman/2013/03/robotic_exoskeletons_ekso_bionics_builds_a_real_life_iron_man.html

Cybathalon 2016: A Competition for Augmented Humans
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/cybathalon-2016-a-competition-for-augmented-humans/