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By Peter Rüegg Ecologists are increasingly using traces of genetic material left behind by living organisms left behind in the environment, called environmental DNA (eDNA), to catalogue and moni...

https://robohub.org/special-drone-collects-environmental-dna-from-trees/

By Christoph Elhardt In ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab, a white robot hand reaches for a beer can, lifts it up and moves it to a glass at the other end of the table. There, the hand carefully t...

https://robohub.org/in-search-for-the-intelligent-machine/

By Fabio Bergamin Scientists around the world are researching how anti-cancer drugs can most efficiently reach the tumours they target. One possibility is to use modified bacteria as “ferries�...

https://robohub.org/fighting-tumours-with-magnetic-bacteria/

Researchers Matthias Hofer, Michael Muehlebach and Raffaello D’Andrea have developed the one-wheel Cubli, a three-dimensional pendulum system that can balance on its pivot using a single reacti...

https://robohub.org/the-one-wheel-cubli/

By Florian Meyer How can a blood clot be removed from the brain without any major surgical intervention? How can a drug be delivered precisely into a diseased organ that is difficult to reach? Th...

https://robohub.org/new-imaging-method-makes-tiny-robots-visible-in-the-body/

By Christoph Elhardt Steep sections on slippery ground, high steps, scree and forest trails full of roots: the path up the 1,098-​metre-high Mount Etzel at the southern end of Lake Zurich is pe...

https://robohub.org/how-robots-learn-to-hike/

By Rahel Künzler Among scientists, there is great interest in tiny machines that are set to revolutionise medicine. These microrobots, often only a fraction of the diameter of a hair, are made t...

https://robohub.org/finding-inspiration-in-starfish-larva/

SPARKED: A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters won the 2016 New York City Drone Film Festival (NYCDFF) Featuring Drones category. NYCDFF is the world’s first event exclusively dedi...

https://robohub.org/sparked-wins-at-new-york-city-drone-film-festival/

StarlETH is a multi-purpose legged transporter robot developed at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab. Combining versatility, speed, robustness, and efficiency, StarlETH walks, climbs, and runs...

https://robohub.org/four-legged-robot-that-efficiently-handles-challenging-terrain/

Inspired to take 3D printing technology to new heights, ETH Zurich and MIT researchers create “Rock Print” — a full-scale architectural installation on display at the Chicago Architecture ...

https://robohub.org/rock-print-a-zero-waste-3d-printed-structure-made-only-of-rock-and-thread/

By Arno Schlüter Today, building envelopes tend to be static and unable to adapt to changing conditions. Now, for the first time, an adaptable façade has been used for the newly inaugurated Hou...

https://robohub.org/soft-robotics-for-adaptive-building-facades/

By: Vanessa Bleich Next year’s Cybathlon will host people with physical disabilities equipped with advanced assistive devices including robotic technologies. The goal of this unique competition...

https://robohub.org/bionic-athletes-compete-in-disciplines-drawn-from-everyday-life/

By Samuel Schlaefli With the help of robots, archaeologists may soon be able to compare their findings with data from thousands of experimental reference samples, enabling them to determine tool ...

https://robohub.org/tracing-human-evolution-with-robots/

By Felix Würsten and Corinne Hodel (Interview). Digital technologies have already turned many areas of the economy inside out. In this interview with Swiss NCCR Digital Fabrication researchers...

https://robohub.org/revolutionising-building-and-construction-sites/

ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are founding a new translational research centre at the interface of medicine, science and engineering: the Wyss Translational Center Zurich. A USD 120 mil...

https://robohub.org/eth-and-university-of-zurich-launch-wyss-translational-center-zurich/

  The cardiologist sits in the control room next to the operating theatre and uses a joystick to steer a catheter through the patient’s blood vessel into the heart’s chambers to treat the ca...

https://robohub.org/aeon-scientific-wins-2014-swiss-technology-award/

Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3D printing technology. Scientists have been conducting research on micrometre-sized...

https://robohub.org/better-micro-actuators-to-transport-materials-in-liquids/

The future is in the hands of tiny robots, really tiny robots — and the expectation is that they will perform miraculous tasks, such as eye surgery and environmental cleanup. Brad Nelson heads ...

https://robohub.org/video-rise-of-the-nanorobot-with-brad-nelson/