Arxius de CREB

BIOMEC receives the UPC Award for Social Commitment in the field of Inclusion

The BIOMEC research group has received the UPC Award for Social Commitment 2021 in the field of Inclusion. This recognition has been awarded to the project "Technology for the improvement of inclusion and quality of life of people with neuromuscular diseases". The jury highlighted the importance of the contribution in the field of neuromuscular diseases, carried out in collaboration with relevant clinical centers such as the Institut Guttmann, the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital or the Heidelberg University Hospital. Also with patient associations, such [...]

BIOMEC2021-10-08T06:51:43+02:00October 8th, 2021|Award, Biomechanics, CREB, News, Project|0 Comments

BIOMEC appears in the TV programme Deuwatts

On May 28th, the BIOMEC Lab appeared in the TV programme Deuwatts of Betevé related to Biomedical Engineering in Catalan universities and institutes. The programme counted with the participation of other groups of the UPC Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CREB), and colleagues from UPF BCN MedTech and IBEC. In this programme, Josep Maria Font explained the research of the group on the ABLE project. The programme is posted below or you can also access it through the following link.

BIOMEC2018-08-20T09:03:55+02:00August 20th, 2018|CaixaImpulse, CREB, Exoskeleton, Media, News, Spinal cord injury, TV Programme, Videos|0 Comments

We are hiring, join our team!

Would you like to combine work and study? Are you looking for a motivating Master Thesis? Are you a person with initiative, willing to learn and eager to apply your knowledge for a good purpose? We are hiring, join our team! The ABLE project was selected by the CaixaImpulse Programme 2017 with the support of EIT Health. This project is now under development and the project team is looking for a computer scientist, and mechanical and electronic engineering students to develop the commercial prototype of [...]

BIOMEC2018-01-19T15:01:38+01:00January 18th, 2018|CaixaImpulse, CREB, Exoskeleton, Neurorehabilitation, News, Project, Recruitment, Spinal cord injury, Technology Transfer|0 Comments

The ABLE project has been selected to participate in the CaixaImpulse Programme 2017

A robotic lower limb exoskeleton to promote functional walking recovery of patients with spinal cord injuries, created by the Biomechanical Engineering Lab (BIOMEC) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), is one of the 23 biomedical research projects selected in the third edition of the CaixaImpulse Programme, organized by "la Caixa" Foundation and Caixa Capital Risc, to promote the transfer of knowledge in biomedicine to market and society, with the creation of biotechnological companies. Project description Every year, around the world, between 250.000 and [...]

BIOMEC2018-06-10T23:37:37+02:00December 21st, 2017|Award, CaixaImpulse, CREB, Exoskeleton, Neurorehabilitation, News, Project, Spinal cord injury, Technology Transfer|0 Comments

New article of the lab on running gait impact dynamics

One of the research lines of the Biomechanical Engineering Lab at CREB is the study of the foot-ground contact dynamics. The impact of the foot with the ground is a critical event when it is running. The high contact forces developed are the main cause of energy loss during the movement and can lead to different musculoskeletal injuries. There are a number of runners that consider whether it is better to run with forefoot or heel impact. Based on the experimental data obtained in [...]

BIOMEC2017-12-21T09:51:18+01:00December 21st, 2017|Biomechanics, CREB, Journal Article, Multibody Dynamics, News, Running, Simulation|0 Comments

BIOMEC researchers at Multibody 2017 and ESB 2017

The Biomechanical Engineering Lab assisted to the 8th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics held in Prague (Czech Republic) from 19th to 22nd June 2017, and to the 23rd Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) in Seville (Spain), from the 2nd to the 5th of July 2017. ECCOMAS Multibody 2017 The ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics is an international meeting, focused on all aspects of multibody dynamics, held once every two years in a European country. This year it was hold [...]

BIOMEC2017-12-14T17:28:41+01:00December 14th, 2017|Biomechanics, Conference, Conference Paper, CREB, Exoskeleton, Gait analysis, Multibody Dynamics, Simulation|0 Comments

CREB’s FabMeetup about Innovative Bio Technologies

The UPC Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CREB) presented ten different projects about Innovative Bio Technologies at FabCafe Barcelona (C/ Bailén, 11) during two FabMeetup sessions, held on February 15th and May 25th. FabMeetups are casual events to meet creative and entrepreneur people, and their objective is to encourage innovation from Barcelona and to promote the creation of new start-ups, products or concepts. Each participant had 5 minutes to explain its idea, concept and to eventually present a prototype. The Biomechanical Engineering Lab (BIOMEC) participated with [...]

BIOMEC2017-12-10T10:25:25+01:00June 30th, 2017|Biomechanics, CREB, Exoskeleton, General, Master's thesis, Neurorehabilitation, Outreach|0 Comments

Alfons Carnicero and Míriam Febrer awarded at “Diada de l’Enginyer” 2017

Alfons Carnicero and Míriam Febrer, members of the BIOMEC Lab at the Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CREB), have won, respectively, the Award to the Best Master's Thesis and a Scholarship for the PhD Thesis given by the Association of Industrial Engineers of Catalonia. These awards were given during the Diada de l'Enginyer 2017. In the photo, you can see the two awardees with the Director of the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB). Alfons Carnicero, graduate student of the Master in Industrial Engineering (with Biomedical specialization) at ETSEIB, was [...]

BIOMEC2017-11-29T17:32:02+01:00June 16th, 2017|Award, Biomechanics, CREB, Master's thesis, PhD thesis|0 Comments

CREB fellows visited the BIOMEC Lab

On September 29th the Biomechanical Engineering Lab received the fellow members from other divisions of the UPC Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering, with the aim of showing them the work done at the lab. The event started with Josep Maria Font introducing the BIOMEC group, along with the past and current projects developed by the team. He was then followed by Rosa Pàmies, who gave a tutorial about dynamic analysis and simulation of human movement. She gave an overall view on inverse and forward dynamic [...]

BIOMEC2017-11-29T17:32:03+01:00October 14th, 2016|CREB, News|0 Comments