How do you get a robot to move, see and hit a shuttlecock back at the same time? A team of researchers at ETH Zurich led by Marco Hutter, Professor of Robotic Systems, have been studying this question ...

Millions of people use password managers. They make accessing online services and bank accounts easy and simplify credit card payments. Many providers promise absolute security – the data is said to ...

ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne (EPFL) are intensifying their collaboration in artificial intelligence (AI). They have founded the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI) with the aim of addressing challenges ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed MenstruAI, a novel device that can recognise biomarkers directly in menstrual blood. The electronic-free sensor technology does not rely on a laboratory and ...

Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria grow inside it, forming biomass and solid minerals and thus binding ...

Zu den neu ernannten Fellows der American Physical Society gehört Rainer Wallny. Seine Gruppe am Departement Physik befasst ...

Marco Hutter, you’ve reduced your workload as a professor to 50% and are now working 50% as head of the Robotics and AI Institute in Zurich. How did that come about? I was contacted by Marc Raibert, ...

Fresh water is scarce in many parts of the world and must be obtained at great expense. Communities near the ocean can desalinate sea water for this purpose, but doing so requires a large amount of ...

Scientifica, the science festival organised by ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, attracted around 40,000 visitors this year. But it wasn’t just visitor numbers that set a new record for the ...

The ETH and Empa spin-off BTRY develops fast-charging batteries that are resistant to temperature fluctuations and suitable for a wide range of applications. 8inks, also an ETH spin-off, wishes to ...

In late summer 2025, a publicly developed large language model (LLM) will be released — co-created by researchers at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). This LLM ...

Glioblastoma is an incurable and fatal type of brain cancer. In large-scale drug screening, the antidepressant vortioxetine emerged as one of the most effective agents against these types of cancer ...