This competence cluster unites research projects in the field of biomechanics. It is one of the various firm and vivid links between the DBE and the hospitals, as it brings together various constellations of surgeons, biomechanics, and engineers at the CADENCE lab at the DBE, the gait lab at the UKBB, and the ORs there and at the University Hospital. Here, translation is not merely a goal, but the very basis of the work.