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AI and Death

As part of a Swissnex program, Mirella Moser, a research assistant at the ZHAW School of Management and Law (SML), spent two weeks traveling through Japan and exploring the topic of “AI Afterlife.” During her trip, she made valuable connections and…

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.

Best Paper Award for Jasmin Heierli

The Swiss Data Science (SDS) Award for Best Paper goes to a project from the ZHAW School of Management and Law (SML). In their study titled “Too Nice to Be Human,” Jasmin Heierli and her team at the Institute of Information Systems (IWI) examined…

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…

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

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.

New fellowships 2026

The digital transformation needs new ideas – this is where “ZHAW digital” comes in: for the eighth time, the initiative is funding innovative research projects from across the university. In 2026, five juniors, three seniors, and five seniors with…

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.

Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) Module for ESP32 Controller

At the recent 3rd Wi-Fi HaLow in Europe Workshop in Berne we presented the development of one of the first CH/EU compliant Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) plugin modules for the ESP32 controller, which allows assessment of the Wi-Fi HaLow performance in…

After Temporary Stabilization, Cash is in Decline Again

Mobile devices remain Switzerland's favorite way to pay, but in-store payment is levelling off. At the same time, cash is becoming less important for everyday payments. These are the findings of the latest "Swiss Payment Monitor" published by the…

10 of the 12 newly funded DIZH projects are with ZHAW participation

The Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Universities (DIZH) has approved 12 projects in the fifth and final project call. The projects are diverse and range from intensive care units to classrooms, forensic institutes, ancient inscriptions, and…