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ZHAW CAI Launches Its First Humanoid Robot Innosuisse Project

The ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) has launched the first Innosuisse project at ZHAW built around humanoid robots. With a budget of over CHF 1.1 million, the project brings AI-driven humanoid automation to hospital sterilization…

European Network on Agentic Physical AI: New COST Action Accepted, Chaired by ZHAW CAI

A new COST Action to build a European network around Agentic Physical AI has been approved. The ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) will chair the four-year network, while the University of Liverpool leads the proposal and administrative…

ZHAW Research on Cooperative Network Architecture Featured on the Cover of Neural Computation

A brain-inspired AI paradigm developed at the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence has been selected for the cover of MIT Press’s Neural Computation. The displayed research introduces an architecture that could significantly improve sample and…

New Platform Unites Expertise in Quantum Research

The ZHAW School of Engineering is launching the Quantum Lab. This cross-institutional platform focuses on quantum topics and strengthens research in this field. Partners benefit from the expertise of the individual institutes in the field of quantum…

ZHAW CAI Industrial AI at the Sino-Swiss Innovation Days 2026 in Hong Kong and Shenzhen

Prof. Dr. Alisa Rupenyan-Vasileva, Rieter Endowed Professor for Industrial AI, participated in the Sino-Swiss Innovation Days 2026 (15–24 April) in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. She delivered a keynote on industrial AI and intelligent automation at the…

Humanoid Robot KAI Takes the Stage at START Hack

PhD student Pascal Sager showcased the humanoid robot KAI during an impressive halftime performance at the START Hack in St. Gallen, promoting the upcoming Davos Tech Summit.

Do LLMs predict the next words like our brain does?

Brain recordings show consistent patterns on the predictability of next words as language models

Two Paths – One Double Degree

Two universities. Two master’s degrees. One year between Winterthur and Wellington.

Building Switzerland’s Research Infrastructure for Autonomous Systems

CAI and ZAV are leading TESTAIR, an initiative for a new national research infrastructure designed to test and validate autonomous systems such as drones and robots in real-world environments.

ZHAW CAI Brings Physical AI to the Agentic Hackathon with ETH at Google Zurich

The ZHAW CAI Embodied Mobile Agents group contributed to the ETH Agentic Systems Lab's recent hackathon at Google Zurich. By providing our robotic fleet and expertise, participants were able to build agentic tooling and run MPC servers, successfully…