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 turning an agentic AI hackathon into an epic Physical AI event.
The ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) recently contributed to the highly successful Agentic Hackathon organized by the ETH Agentic Systems Lab and hosted at Google in Zürich. Alongside partners like Google DeepMind, Founderful and Vercel , our contribution helped push the boundaries of applied agentic AI by bringing it into the physical realm.
Our Embodied Mobile Agents research group, represented by Dr. Jorge Peña Queralta and PhD student Pascal Sager, brought a fleet of state-of-the-art hardware to the event, including quadrupeds, a tabletop Reachy Mini tabletop robot, and a humanoid robot. Over an intense 8-hour period, Jorge and Pascal supported the teams as participants gained hands-on experience building agentic tooling and running MCP servers directly on our robots.
It was incredible to see what the teams built in under 8 hours, successfully bridging the gap between agentic software and physical robotics. A huge thank you to the organizing team—Robert Jacob, Kevin O’Sullivan, Pascal Bertrand, Atoof Shakir, and Edo Treccani —for making this happen, as well as our affiliated initiatives like Binabik AI and the Davos Tech Summit davostechsummit.com for their continued support of the ecosystem.