“TexRobots Team” from the ITU Soft Sensors Lab working group, led by our faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür ATALAY and Computer Engineering faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gökhan İNCE, won the first prize in the Teknofest Biotechnology and Innovation Competition, and “SofTex Team” won the third prize in the Teknofest Communication Technologies competition.

In the project named "Texrobot for Hand Paralysis Rehabilitation", which was the first in the field of biotechnology, in which Ayşe Feyza Yılmaz, Kadir Özlem, Fidan Khalilbayli, and Ömür Fatmanur Erzurumluoğlu took part, textile-based seamless knitted actuators were developed and soft exoskeleton robots were built for hand rehabilitation of paralyzed patients.

In the "Real-Time Activity and Heart Rate Detection Using Textile-Based Sensors" project, in which our university students Uğur Ayvaz, Kadir Özlem, Ayşe Feyza Yılmaz, Ali Emre Öztaş took part and won the third place in the field of communication, textile-based capacitive strain sensors and ECG electrodes were used. Real-time activity and heart rate detection was performed by integrating it into the suit. A modular wearable system was designed by using Bluetooth and IoT technologies.