Exhibitors 2023
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At a-metal, our vision is to democratize metal 3D printing within the industry. We firmly believe that SMEs, educational institutions, and small development groups should have easier access to this revolutionary technology on their premises. That's why we developed an affordable, compact and safe metal 3d printer, which will be tested in a industrial pilot program starting in Q1 2024. >website
Aegis Rider AG is an end-to-end provider of augmented reality systems for the motorcycle, automotive and racing industry. >website
We simplify endoscopy. aiEndoscopic combines artificial intelligence and robotics to make complex endoscopic procedures simpler, aiming for autonomy.
The first application is intuBot - an assistive device for easier and safer tracheal intubation.
The startup is an official spin-off of the three big universities of Zurich: ETH, USZ, and UZH. >website
Alivions mission is to provide electronics the sense of smell.
More than 15 years of research at ETH Zurich has gone into our technology to detect pollutants in the environment, toxic substances in food and volatile metabolites in our breath, making people's lives safer and healthier. >website
apheros offers metal foams with a unique, open-porous microstructure ideally suited for heat management. They can be used as heat sinks, heat exchangers, heat pipes, and even boiler plates. Their incredibly high surface area (1000x industry standard) gives rise to additional applications in lubrication, as grease reservoirs, and as catalysis substrates. >website
AtlasVR solves the scalability issue of industrial training with a customizable virtual reality software platform specifically designed for production facilities and industrial equipment manufacturers. The platform can be utilized fully remotely, which reduces costs by up to 75% and the CO2 emissions of today's industrial training by up to 98%. >website
We are a chemical engineering start-up aiming to develop and operate processes to produce bio-based platform chemicals. Our customers are chemical, industrial and consumer goods producers looking for ways to manufacture their products without using oil-based materials. Our bio-based chemicals make everyday products like textiles, glues, and films greener without changing the design, supply chain, or market price. >website
A Digital and Connected Assembly Solution. Digitizing assembly increases process reliability and productivity, and thus reduces production costs in your manufacturing. Smart Factory Assembly ensures optimal process control in manual assembly. >website
Bota Systems' vision is for robots to work and move safely and as natural and free as humans. As a developer and manufacturer of multi-axis force-torque sensors, torque sensors, and custom sensors, we are diligent about providing the best force-torque sensing solutions and user care experience. >website
Calvin Risk helps companies create and manage trustworthy AI that is aligned with humanity. Founded in 2022 as an ETH Zurich spin-off, we build the most advanced platform for assessing AI risks, which creates a much-needed framework for transparency and governance of AI while ensuring its safety, and ethical, and regulatory compliance. >website
CELLSIUS Project e-Sling und Project H2 sind studentische Fokusprojekte der ETH Zürich. Das CELLSIUS Project H2 hat als Ziel, ein Wasserstoffbrennstoffzellen-Antrieb für eine Lightwing AC4 zu entwickeln. Der Verein CELLSIUS wurde 2022 von Studierenden gegründet und ist für die Instandhaltung, Flugerprobung sowie die Betreuung und Planung der zukünftigen Projekte im Bereich der nachhaltigen Aviatik zuständig. >website
The mission of the center is to deliver research-based contributions to the design and implementation of sustainable transport systems. For that, the center builds on the strategic partnership established in 2018 with SBB followed by Siemens and AMAG. We aim at creating an visible hub for research, education, and knowledge transfer towards the implementation of a sustainable mobility system. >website
Emerging from the research group of Weather & Climate Risk at ETH Zurich, CLIMADA Technologies is a global climate risk analytics company identifying opportunities for businesses through climate adaptation. Our technology is built on CLIMADA, an open-source global multi-hazard model, designed to calculate the socioeconomic impacts of weather and climate. >website
The Competence Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering and Science presents: smart clothing for biomechanical monitoring; neurosurveillance for personalised recovery monitoring following spinal cord injury; Reagiro steering-by-leaning in manual wheelchairs. >website
Design++, the Center for Augmented Computational Design in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction at ETH Zurich, aims to develop digitally augmented design tools and computational processes that will enable experts to simultaneously increase construction productivity, improve the quality of the built environment and substantially reduce the environmental impact within Architecture, Engineering, and Construction. >website
DuraMon provides robust and long-term corrosion monitoring solutions for concrete infrastructure such as bridges, tunnels, and parking garages. Our innovative sensor technology and Smart Analytics platform enables early damage detection and precise damage prediction, empowering informed decision-making in maintenance and repair activities. >website
Dynius is an ETH spin-off founded in 2021. We leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence to change how companies operate. Our core product is a secure & private AI-based platform which supports employees and executives with data aggregation and decision-making based on public and proprietary data and intelligently automates repetitive processes. >website
eightinks is developing a proprietary manufacturing platform for lithium ion batteries that enables novel cell designs with breakthrough materials. The technology increases overall equipment efficiencies and unlocks next generation batteries for high end applications. >website
As ETH's central hub for artificial intelligence, we bring together researchers of AI foundations, applications, and implications across all departments. We foster research excellence, industry innovation, and AI entrepreneurship to promote trustworthy, accessible, and inclusive AI systems. >website
Without accessible tools to monitor soil nutrient levels, farmers currently engage in over-fertilization practices to secure crop yields. This leads to various environmental problems. To enable precise fertilizer usage, >the Bezdek group aims to develop novel chemical sensors providing real-time information about soil health. Read more about it >here
The theoretical, computational and experimental research activities in the fields of combustion, acoustics and fluid mechanics at the CAPS laboratory of Prof. Noiray address fundamental and applied problems, which are relevant for the development of workable and sustainable technologies in the energy and transport sectors. >website
At the Computer Vision and Geometry Lab we study and develop techniques to extract 3D shape, motion, appearance and calibration information from images. We aim to develop new theories and algorithms, as well as systems and applications. Our current focus lies on accurate and privacy preserving visual localisation, mixed reality assistive systems, human-robot teams, and geometric & semantic scene understanding. >website
The Energy Science Center, a competence center at ETH Zurich, promotes cross-cutting, inter-departmental and interdisciplinary research and education to answer the energy challenges of today and tomorrow. >website
The ETH Entrepreneur Club is one of the most active and prominent student-run clubs in Switzerland. Our goal is to inspire, educate and accelerate the next generation of entrepreneurs. >website
Excellence in entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich is driven by world-class research and education. It gives rise to groundbreaking new ventures that consolidate Switzerland’s technological leadership. Are you an aspiring entrepreneur seeking to find solutions to global challenges and create a better future for humanity. Or are you just interested in the entrepreneurial ecosystem at ETH Zurich? >website
We understand the challenges of turning ideas into reality. Our expertise lies in navigating uncertainty with minimal prototypes and focussed testing. Our goal: Finding out what works without building the entire thing. We take on industry challenges in short feasibility studies (max. 3-6 months) and provide valuable insights to help you make informed decisions and bring your ideas to life efficiently. >website
ETH for Development (ETH4D) is an ETH-wide network of 50 research groups that work with industry, NGOs, and governments to foster innovations that address global challenges and educate future leaders of global sustainable development and ETH and beyond. >website
ETH Hangar at the Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich is an innovation hub connecting industry and academia through collaborative projects, with the focus on both education and technology transfer. Located at Innovation Park Zürich, ETH Hangar provides an infrastructure with vast testing grounds and unique workshops, and an interdisciplinary environment
ETH Industry Relations supports companies in finding partners, organises visits and workshops, and offers advice on funding opportunities. >website
ETH juniors: Empowering innovation through consulting, talent acquisition, and tech projects. We connect exceptional students from ETH and leading swiss universities with real-world challenges. Our diverse expertise spans industries, delivering impactful solutions. Collaborate with us to access top-tier consulting, talent, and cutting-edge projects. >website
We characterized a carrot-derived anti-aging molecule as highly potent exercise enhancer and developed large-scale procurement protocols. Supplementation with our compound has strong clinical potential to prevent frailty in the elderly by increasing physical endurance, thus supporting individual efforts to stay healthy.
Research at the Laboratory of Energy Science and Engineering aims at advancing both material functionalities such as their catalytic or CO2 uptake performance, and the related industrial processes to address the important challenge of producing fuels, electricity, and chemicals in efficient and sustainable ways. >website
AlpineWell: A spin-off project from the Laboratory of Exercise and Health at ETH Zurich. We focus on addressing malnutrition in elderly populations through AI-powered nutritional tracking and superior, enjoyable dietary supplements >website
NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies is an ETH Technology Platform created to enable and accelerate translational research projects by providing key technological resources, tools and collaboration opportunities for the personalized health research community. >website
We showcase our ground breaking advancements in energy-efficient smart sensors, IoT, and low-latency intelligence for robots and vehicles. Our specialized group of experts has dedicated their expertise to revolutionize industries through innovative solutions that optimize energy consumption, enhance operational efficiency, and empower seamless automation, improving the intelligence at the edge. >website
The CAS ETH Robotics is a personalised advanced training programme in the field of robotics and AI. The advanced training builds on top of the industrial experience of individual participants, expanding and updating the knowledge and skills with cutting-edge developments and research in robotics and AI. >website
Lifelong inspiration: Continuing education at ETH Zurich promotes success in the workplace and will foster your personal career. In the development of new continuing education offers ETH Zurich is in close contact with representatives in industry. Many of our alumni assume leading positions in business, government and society. >website
The group "Security, Privacy and Society" conducts research at the intersection of humans and technology with a focus on human-computer interaction and the human aspects of IT security and privacy. Using interdisciplinary approaches, we aim to tackle current security-related challenges and to develop human-centered solutions. >website
We are a group of curious minds who study exciting questions in the intersection of statistics and machine learning. On a high level, we like to develop new theoretical insights and methods to address modern machine learning challenges such as robust and fair generalization, as well as privacy preservation in the learning process. >website
ETH transfer offers licensing opportunities to industry and informs about guidelines that apply to research contracts. >website
The sustainable success of manufacturing companies depends on two factors, skilled people and innovation. With the CAS ETH AMaP programme, the ETH Zurich Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP) offers an opportunity for technical professionals to stay competitive in the job market, and to enhance the bidirectional knowledge transfer to exploit the academic as well as industrial innovation potential. >website
Our invention enables the design of solar receivers capable of delivering heat at T>1500 °C with high efficiency. This paves the way towards the solarization of key industries. We show the prototype of our solar device performing the calcination of limestone, i.e., the most polluting step in cement production, with integrated CO2 capture.
EthonAI is on a mission to redefine quality management for manufacturing. We aggregate process and quality data into one platform, offering a comprehensive suite of software tools for root cause analysis, process monitoring, and vision-based defect detection. Our platform empowers manufacturers to detect defective products before reaching customers, monitor quality performance, and preemptively root out quality defects. >website
Euresearch is the Swiss non-profit Network to promote and facilitate the participation of Swiss researchers, organisations and companies in European projects and programmes related to research and innovation. Our services are free and provide information and guidance on cooperation and funding opportunities. Swiss Researchers and companies can still participate in many EU Research & Innovation programmes, despite Switzerland's status as third country. >website
A joint programme in general management focusing on technology and leadership by ETH Zürich and University of St.Gallen. Two top Swiss institutions join forces to design an innovative Executive Education curriculum for senior and experienced leaders which integrates technology and leadership in a journey through ever-changing landscapes. >website
An ETH spinoff, Focal Biosciences develops a scalable cellular reprogramming discovery platform for interventions that restore a functional cell state in the physiological context of aging and age-related disease using novel epigenetic signatures. >website
Gaia Tech turns agricultural byproducts into useful ingredients for the processing industry. The startup is currently upcycling a sidestream from olive oil production into antioxidants. The antioxidants serve as natural additives to extend the shelf-life of food products or as active ingredients in beauty products. >website
Gravis Robotics is a startup of ETH Zurich that turns heavy construction machines into intelligent and autonomous robots. Our team has over a decade of academic experience honing the cutting edge of large-scale robotics, and is rapidly growing to bring that expertise into a multi-billion dollar industry. >website
We promote the partnership between academia and the market with innovation projects, training and coaching, laying the groundwork for successful start-ups, products and services. >website
The Innovation Booster Photonics, powered by Innosuisse, with the leading house Swissmem, aims to boost more radical innovation ideas and helping them getting off the ground. It brings together key players from research, business and society on an innovation topic and stimulates the development and testing of new ideas in interdisciplinary teams. >website
Technology transfer from ETH to the Swiss Industry for generating innovations on the field of production technologies. >website
ETH Zurich Spin-off incon.ai offers AR software for construction, enhancing productivity with digital step-by-step guidance and 3D instructions on top of real-world objects. incon.ai's unique algorithms unlock the full potential of AR in the construction sector and empower everybody to build better. >website
Irmos Technologies in an award winning ETH startup aiming to maximize the safe operational life of existing buildings and bridges. Our cutting-edge software empowers engineers to monitor the structural health of real structures, reducing maintenance costs and environmental impact and in the same time improving safety. Our innovative solution has already been deployed in multiple benchmark structures. >website
Spin-off from ETH Zürich, developing the first scalable AI platform to automatically diagnose and fix data and model issues in computer vision, vital for enabling real-world model adoption. >website
Connect to technology. Master your career. We empower the technology-savvy business professionals of tomorrow.
A unique continuing education programme tailored to industry needs and addressed to non-technical managers and professionals. Various CAS programmes cover latest topics in IT, Electronics, Digitization, Energy, Manufacturing and Innovation. >website
MESH AG, a spin-off company of ETH Zurich founded in 2022, is the world's first technology to combine formwork and reinforcement within a digital fabrication process. >website
The NCCR Digital Fabrication aims to revolutionise architecture through the seamless combination of digital technologies and physical building processes. Over 100 researchers from six different academic disciplines collaborate to develop ground-breaking technologies for tomorrow’s construction. >website
Oxara is an ETH spinoff funded in 2019. It aims at developing technologies for sustainable and circular building materials and affordable housing. >website
The Swiss Solution to a Global Problem. We protect our precious water resources, humans, and our environment from the negative impacts of highly persistent, mobile and toxic micropollutants with our efficient and sustainable technology. >website
Do you want to heat products such as car seats, clothing and shoes? Use qCella's innovative reshaped heat tech. Our heating mats can be cut into any shape and are integrated into your products in an easy and customizable way. The mats are so thin & flexible, you can barely feel them and they heat evenly, resulting in more energy efficient heating. >website
We offer purpose-built technologies and services for continuous and automated decision-support tools to optimize wind turbine fleet operation through unique structural health insights. >website
SAEKI is an ETH Spin-Off building the flexible factories of the future, leveraging digital manufacturing and robotics. SAEKI provides end-to-end automation combining 3D printing, milling, and inspection, for large-scale parts delivered next day. From concrete formwork and construction elements, to precision tooling for the composites industry. >website
Research on wearable sensing technology for improving health care in outpatient life applied to chronic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Identifying direct and indirect digital biomarkers, leveraging advanced machine learning and statistical inference. Enhancing the clinical decision-making process and enabling new interventional strategies for inpatient and outpatient life in chronic conditions. Create a digital patient twin model. >website
Scandens is an ETH Zurich spin-off that specializes in software solutions for quantifying the energy performance of buildings and creating actionable, profitable, and 1.5°C-compliant renovation plans. Their software leverages state-of-the-art AI, large data sets, and proprietary energy simulation engine to deliver optimized results: fast, science-based and at scale. >website
Skaaltec develops transformative neuroscience health technologies, such as the SmartVNS. SmartVNS incorporates several exciting but already established technologies into a single product and focuses on the user experience. Patients simply wear a smartwatch and a small headphone-like brain stimulator. The rest is done in the background without them ever noticing anything - wear it and forget it! The result is that patients can do cutting edge neurorehabilitation while doing daily tasks. >website
We provide a passive solution for fogging on transparent surfaces while only relying on sunlight. The coating is fabricated with industrialized methods and is integrable, offering a scalable, cost-effective, long-lasting and sustainable anti-fog solution requiring no active source of energy (i.e. no electricity).
Up to 50% of the main breathing muscle (diaphragm) is lost in the first days of mechanical ventilation. Breathing without support may become difficult. STIMIT and the Exercise Physiology Lab explored different avenues to improve return to spontaneous breathing. STIMIT's device stimulates the diaphragm non-invasively aiming to tackle this problem. >website
The Swiss Biotech Association represents the interests of the Swiss biotech industry. To support its members in a competitive market, the Swiss Biotech Association works to secure favorable framework conditions and facilitates access to talents, novel technologies and financial resources. The Swiss Biotech Association collaborates with numerous partners and life science clusters globally under the brand Swiss Biotech™. >website
The Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) is a joint venture between EPFL and ETH Zurich. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption of data science and machine learning techniques within academic disciplines of the ETH Domain, the Swiss academic community at large, the public domain and the industrial sector. The center is composed of a multi-disciplinary team of data and computer scientists, and experts in selected domains with offices in Zürich, Lausanne, and Villigen. >website
Tethys Robotics developed the world's only compact underwater drone capable of terrain-aware autonomy in all waters, even in strong water flows and poor visibility. Our drone's exceptional autonomy sets it apart from existing technologies and overcomes existing barriers in search & inspection applications. >website
The Therapy Development Accelerator (TDA) is the central platform for supporting healthcare related ventures from within the University Medicine Zurich (UMZH: UZH, ETH, USZ, Balgrist, Kinderspital Zurich, PUK). The two main activities are: 1) The TDA hosts SPARK Zurich. 2) The UZH Life Sciences Fund is a partnership between the Novartis Venture Fund and The UZH Foundation. >website
Ever-growing traffic congestion and emissions pose major challenges for a more sustainable future. To address these, Transcality combines big data, machine learning and advanced simulation algorithms to create digital twins that empower governments and other infrastructure users to transform their transportation systems into greener networks. >website
Millions of patients have to apply painful injections. Unfortunately, drugs they depend on cannot be taken orally, as they are susceptible to degradation and often too large to cross the gut barrier. These challenges can be overcome with our octopus-inspired OctoPatchTM formulation that can be easily self-applied to the inner side of the cheek.
Visium is a Swiss AI&Data company helping businesses in Healthcare, Chemicals, and CPG build their data-driven future. With more than 150 impactful initiatives, our 60+ experts, specializing in strategy, data architecture, cloud engineering, analytics, AI, and ML, bring tailored solutions and strategic consulting services to Global 500 companies. >website
We empower manufacturers with a platform that democratizes AI-powered visual inspection. Manufacturers can standardize and automate their most complex and inspection processes without AI expertise. >website
The Center works toward the vision of a healthy world through sustainable food systems. We work across disciplines and scales and in partnerships with key stakeholders to create new knowledge and ensure it is translated into real-world impact. >website
Wyss Zurich is a unique accelerator, embedded within the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, dedicated to the emerging fields of regenerative medicine and robotics, and medical devices/bionics technologies. We unite world-leading experts, pooling their knowledge and expertise, to form multidisciplinary teams. >website
