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Industrial AI at the ZHAW CAI: Smart Machines Cluster event brings research and industry together

On 29 September 2026, the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) hosted the latest event of the Smart Machines Cluster Initiative in Winterthur. Several CAI groups presented representative projects on trustworthy and explainable AI for…

Alisa Rupenyan-Vasileva named among the Top 100+ Women in AI, Data & Robotics in Switzerland 2026

Prof. Dr. Alisa Rupenyan-Vasileva, head of the Industrial AI group at the CAI, is included in the 2026 list of the Top 100+ Women in AI, Data & Robotics in Switzerland 2026. The ETH AI Center and Greater Zurich Area compile the list to give…

Towards positive, realistic AI scenarios for Swiss society

End of September, a small group of national and international experts met to ideate futures for our societies that are worth pursuing and living in. A bespoke process was employed to ensure the results would end up realistic.

SKAO Science Book published

A new anthology of SKA Observatory science has been released presenting an up-to-date picture of the vast range of research that will be enabled by the SKA telescopes.

Kurt Stockinger gives Keynote on Agentic AI at Digital Health Lab Symposium

At the Digital Health Lab Symposium 2026, Prof. Dr. Kurt Stockinger will show in his keynote “Multimodal Data Exploration with Agentic AI” how agentic AI systems can be used to explore and analyze complex, multimodal health data.

Empowering Swiss SMEs for Responsible AI Adoption

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Switzerland’s economy. Successful adoption of AI by SMEs is hindered by barriers including technological complexity, uncertainty about regulatory requirements and limited resources. In a…

ZHAW CAI Brings Swiss Physical AI to VivaTech in Paris

The ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI), together with Binabik AI, joined the Swiss delegation at VivaTech in Paris, one of Europe’s largest technology fairs. The week kicked off with an evening event at the Embassy of Switzerland.

ZHAW CAI Welcomes Austrian Industry Delegation on Cognitive Robotics

The ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) hosted an Austrian business delegation on Cognitive Robotics. As the final Zurich stop after ETH, ANYbotics, mimic, and ABB, the CAI welcomed around 20 industry leaders for two research presentations…

ZHAW CAI at ICRA 2026: a paper on 4D Scene Graphs

Dr. Jorge Peña Queralta was at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, one of the world’s leading robotics conferences, to present “AION,” new research on helping autonomous robots understand how their surroundings change over time through 4D Scene Graphs. He was also…

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…

Keynote on Quantum Computing for Data Management at SIGMOD Workshop “Q-Data 2026”

On May 31, 2026, Kurt Stockinger gave a keynote speech “Quantum Computing for Data Management” at “Quantum Computing and Quantum-Inspired Technology for Data-Intensive Systems and Applications” co-located with SIGMOD 2026. SIGMOD is a leading…

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…

When Does Quantum Machine Learning Actually Help? First Doctoral Thesis on Quantum Machine Learning at ZHAW.

Quantum computers process information in a fundamentally different way than classical machines, exploiting superposition, entanglement, interference, and the structure of quantum measurement. Whether these properties translate into practical…

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

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…