EPFL hosts robots from all over Switzerland

05. They fly, crawl, swim or sift through rubble after a disaster: robots from all across Switzerland were brought to EPFL on Wednesday for the first ever Swiss Robotics Industry Day (video report). Smart robots designed to improve our quality of life. That was the theme of yesterday's inaugural conference and demonstration put together by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Robotics (NCCR) at EPFL. Researchers and industry players witnessed firsthand the latest advances in robotics technology in Switzerland, with applications in such diverse areas as medical rehabilitation, agriculture, education and drone aerial photography. Among the most promising developments are wearable robots - intelligent prosthetics and exoskeletons - which are designed to help in the rehabilitation of medical patients and improve their quality of life. In another field, EPFL and its sister school ETH Zurich unveiled several robots designed to assist rescuers in natural disasters.