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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…

ZHAW CAI Showcased Physical AI and Robotics at the Humanoid Forum in Biel

Following successful appearances at WEF and Swiss Robotics Day, the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) headed to the Humanoid Forum in Biel. We showcased live robotics demonstrations, presented our latest research in Physical AI and…

Galactic Alchemy: Deep Learning Map-to-Map Translation in Hydrodynamical Simulations

A new research publication pioneers the use of generative AI to bridge HPC simulations of the early universe with observational data obtained by radio telescopes.

CAI wins 4 projects in one day

With an acceptance rate of 13%, the fifth DIZH project call was very competitive; the CAI was successful with submissions on health, education, and security.