Prof. Robert Riener is Full Professor for Sensory–Motor Systems at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich. He has been an Assistant Professor for Rehabilitation Engineering at ETH Zurich since May 2003. As he holds a Double Professorship with the University of Zurich, he is also active in the Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Balgrist University Hospital (Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich). Prof. Robert Riener studied mechanical engineering at TU München and University of Maryland, USA, from 1988 till 1993. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree and the Dr. degree from the TU München in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1993, he joined the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, where he has pursued research into neuroprosthetics. His current research interests at ETH Zurich and University of Zurich involve AI for disease prevention, sleep research, man–machine interaction, and rehabilitation robotics. He was also awarded the euRobotics Technology Transfer Awards 2011, 2012, and 2021, and the 2024 IEEE RAS/EMBS Biorobotics Key Innovator Award. He is the inventor and initiator of CYBATHLON, for which he was awarded many prizes. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. Riener is also an AAAS Leshner Fellow and a Thomas Mann Fellow.