Research News

Finance, Land-Use Planning, and Human Resources Pose Challenges for Swiss Municipal and City Authorities

A sound financial budget, forward-looking land-use planning, and a qualified workforce head the list of strategic priorities for Swiss municipalities and cities. A new ZHAW study shows that strategic planning is widely established in municipalities…

Albena Björck in the MIT Sloan Management Review

An article by ZHAW researcher Albena Björck entitled “What Kind of Chief Purpose Officer Does Your Company Need,” has been published in the renowned MIT Sloan Management Review. In the article, Dr. Björck and her co-author Dr. Nicole Steller (ESCP…

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.

New study examines the resilience of the Swiss energy system

Researchers at ETH Zurich and ZHAW have developed a new optimisation model to plan electricity systems that better reflect real world conditions by including normal years and crisis scenarios. For Switzerland, the results are surprisingly…

New Project Investigates Cyberattacks on Swiss Organizations and Receives SNF Funding

Cyberattacks are on the rise, but there has been little research into how experienced responders make decisions in such situations when under time pressure and facing uncertainty. This new ZHAW project investigates real-world cyber incidents in Swiss…

Visiting Researcher Completes Research Stay at MHI

From March to May 2026, MHI hosted Jokin Alcibar Ibarzabal as a Visiting PhD Researcher. During his three-month stay at ZHAW, Jokin collaborated with the MHI team on research in trustworthy AI for Prognostics and Health Management, with a focus on…

MHI Research Presented at SDS 2026

Dr. Lilach Goren Huber presented the research “How Much Data Is Enough? What Battery Systems Teach Us About Monitoring” at the Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS) 2026. The work explores how to balance monitoring performance with data collection…

Innosuisse Funds Research Project with Oetiker Schweiz

Congratulations! The Swiss Innovation Fund Innosuisse accepted our research application together with Oetiker Schweiz. We received funding for two years to develop advanced AI algorithms that enable new digital services for industrial automated…

Innosuisse Funds Research Project with Stadler Services

Congratulations! The Swiss Innovation Agency Innosuisse has approved our joint research proposal with Stadler Services. The project has been awarded funding for two years to jointly develop a new system for condition-based maintenance of train…

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…

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.