Carl Schmitt

Carl has been involved in the development of medical devices for 12 years. During his Ph.D. Thesis at EPFL, on “Functional orthosis with parallel and serial kinematics for the rehabilitation of the lower limbs”, he specialized in biomechanics and invented the first concept of the Lambda robot. He is currently Professor at the HEIG-VD in the Biomedical Engineering Group and continues his research in robotics applied to rehabilitation as head of the biomechanics laboratory.