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A new joystick developed by startup MotionPilot lets users fly drones with just one hand in a fun, intuitive way.

A new generation of microsensors could provide the vital link between food products and the Internet of Things. ETH researchers have developed an ultra-thin temperature sensor that is both biocompatible and biodegradable. Nowadays microsensors are already used in many different applications, such as the detection of poisonous gases.

A conventional camera and an event camera (on the right) picture the same building. The latter reports changes in brightness for each pixel.

Using a thermal camera mounted on a drone, an EPFL student has found a way to spot fawns before the harvester passes through.

Simone Schürle likes to get to the bottom of things. Since August, the microand nanotechnology expert has been working as Assistant Professor of Responsive Biomedical Systems at ETH Zurich to develop tiny machines for medical applications in the human body.

Another major success for a student team from TU Graz: GRIPS RoboCup team wins second place in the "Logistics" league of the RoboCup 2017 in Nagoya, Japan.

Drones as modern carrier pigeons and autonomous electric vehicles as urban suppliers: TU Graz's expertise is at a premium in trialling of new delivery methods.

On May 2, at the ground-breaking ceremony for the NEST unit 'dfab house', the project team, consisting of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) 'Digital Fabrication', ETH Zurich and nu

A drone has been equipped with feathers to increase its precision during flight. The bio-inspired device can spread or close its wings while flying, making it easier to maneuver and more resistant in high winds.

Visitors are flocking to Treffpunkt Science City. Around 3,600 captivated visitors attended the Sunday Special 'Die Roboter sind los' (Robots on the loose) to see ETH Zurich's various robotics projects in action.

EPFL scientists have developed a new type of composite thread that varies in stiffness depending on its temperature.

Two TU Graz teams achieve success at the RoboCup2016: Team TEDUSAR becomes world champion in Autonomous Exploration in the Rescue Robot league; Team GRIPS wins third place in the Logistics league and is Rookie of the Year Photographic material available for download at the end of the report.

10. The new Mechanical Engineering building designed by architect Dominique Perrault hosts the Discovery Learning Labs, an innovative teaching project meant to encourage students to engage in experimentation and learning through discovery.

Funded by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and the Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, the team wants to enable computers to orientate themselves in a non-standard environment.

Founded in 2015, the new Turing Centre at ETH Zurich brings together researchers and students of science, engineering and humanities.

Researchers at the University of Zurich, the Università della Svizzera italiana, and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland have developed software enabling drones to autonomously detect and follow forest paths.

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).

28. Researchers at EPFL have come up with a folding, reconfigurable robot that is capable of crawling and jumping.

12. Inspired by the compound eyes of fruit flies, a team of researchers from EPFL has developed an artificial eye that allows robots to detect and avoid obstacles.

EPFL scientists are creating futuristic furniture that can move around and autonomously change its shape.

Michael Triantafyllou is a pioneer in the development of robots inspired by fish and other marine life.

Robotic cheetah cubs and salamanders have ventured from Lausanne into the depths of London's robot jungle, at the Science Museum, in a Robot Safari that just opened and runs until Sunday.

The French company Parrot, world leader in wireless peripherals for mobile phones and already in the market for consumer drones, acquired for 5 million Swiss Francs a majority share in senseFly, a start-up from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL.

While it's exploring confined, dangerous or cluttered zones, the flying robot "Airburr" isn't fazed by crashes or falls.

EPFL scientists have developed an educational robot designed to introduce children to technology in schools.

A doctoral student from EPFL's Laboratory of Robotics Systems has developed a concept for modular industrial robots, based on the technology of parallel robots, whose precision is expressed in nanometers.

Renovated from top to bottom, EPFL's microengineering building is now prepared to house new, highly promising experiments in microengineering and bioengineering.

Much more than an exhibition, the Robotics Festival will enable both children and adults to better understand the technology behind these devices - of varying shapes and astonishing abilities - through touching, building and programming.

11. Zurich - ETH Zürich . Vice President Research and Corporate Relations He heads the Executive Board division Research and Corporate Relations.

Surround sight has come to the camera. Inspired by the eye of a fly, EPFL scientists have invented a camera that can take pictures and film in 360° and reconstruct the images in 3D.