Scheidemann, Carmen
Cramariuc, Andrei
Chen, Changan
Chiu, Jia-Ruei
Hutter, Marco
Funding for this research was provided by:
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Article History
Received: 15 November 2025
Accepted: 25 February 2026
First Online: 20 April 2026
Declarations
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: Under guidance from the ETH Ethics Commission, the user study was framed as a contract of collaboration between the researchers and the participant. This was done to reflect both our collaboration in the development of the system for the competition itself and their role as an expert operator of the proposed system. The proposal detailing the user study was reviewed by the ETH Zurich Ethics Commission. Based on this review, the Vice President for Research of ETH Zurich, Prof. Annette Oxenius, approved it without reservations. The official proposal title and reference number were as follows: Project 25 ETHICS-236: Cybathlon-Inspired Mobile Robotic Assistance at Home .
: Consent was collected from the participant of the user study to gather data and video material containing them and their home. We explicitly reaffirmed their consent to have this data published in a non-anonymized form in the context of this publication.
: The authors declare no Competing interests.