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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…

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…

CAI presents Readings in AI 2025/26

In our most recent research report, Readings in AI 2025/26 (Volume 1 - 3), we present the fruit of our labor from 2025 and first quarter of 2026. It is the result of our team of staff, students, and partners working together to enhance human-centric…

DIZH Outreach: Research Meets Society

The next round of DIZH Outreach funding has been finalized—and ZHAW is represented in impressive numbers.

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

Eight New DFF Projects Showcase the Versatility of Digital Technologies

For the twelfth time, the ZHAW digital initiative is funding a wide range of research and development projects. The eight selected projects focus on aspects of digitalisation in areas such as energy, biodiversity, and health.

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…

They act in our name. Who sets their limits?

AI agents answer our clients, handle our requests and increasingly make decisions on our behalf. When an agent oversteps, an apology comes too late: it may already have moved money, shared data or made a promise in our name.