Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT), ETH Zurich

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The Federal Council re-elected today André Kudelski as president, and Sergio P. Ermotti, Aude Pugin and Anna Valente as members to the Innosuisse Board for the 2025–28 term of office. Kristina Shea, Professor for Engineering Design and Computing at ETH Zurich, was elected as a new board member. The expertise of Professor Kristina Shea in the fields of engineering design and computing is an ideal complement to the skills of the re-elected members. Applied digitalisation is indeed of key significance for SMEs. Welcome to Innosuisse Kristina! Edouard Bugnion and Marco Illy will step down from the Innosuisse Board at the end of the year. Innosuisse would like to thank them for their valuable and long-standing commitment to Swiss innovation funding. https://lnkd.in/eJhpJ_hR

Today, the top 10 student teams from the Innovation Project stepped in to help Santa by #Competing to pick up gifts with their self-built #Autonomous #Robots and drop them through chimneys along a set route. The grand finale took place amidst much cheering and excitement from fellow students in the main hall of ETH. The winners of the #Innovation Project 2024 are: • 1st place: Speedy Santa • 2nd place: BIBUP • 3rd place: Santas's Joyride Congratulations to all the winners! The Innovation Project is a course in the third semester of the Bachelor's program in #MechanicalEngineering at ETH Zurich. In teams, students go through the entire product #Development process from the very first idea to a fully functioning product. Images: ETH Zürich Related: Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT), ETH Zurich, Mirko Meboldt, Mark Zander, Tom Stein, ETH Feasibility Lab, Nik Lehmann, Fjodor Lundgren, Basil Kauth, Manuel Zhao, Simi Wespi, Sven A. Peyer

💥 Big News - ANYbotics Raises $60M to Accelerate Global Expansion! 💥 📢 We’re thrilled to announce that ANYbotics has raised additional funding, bringing our total funding to $130 million. This milestone marks a significant step in accelerating our global scaling and U.S. expansion to meet the growing demand for industrial inspection robots and deliver exceptional services and seamless integrations across industries like energy, power, metals, mining, and chemicals. Led by Qualcomm Ventures and Supernova Invest and joined by new investors such as TDK Ventures along with continued support from Walden Catalyst Ventures, NGP Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Swisscom Ventures and Swisscanto, this funding underscores the growing demand for our AI-driven industrial inspection robots. 📈 What’s next? With growing demand from leading industry clients like bp, Siemens Energy, Equinor, PETROBRAS PETROLEO BRASILEIRO SA, and Outokumpu, we’re scaling faster than ever to reshape the future of industrial inspection globally. With the opening of our new Silicon Valley office, we are bringing faster deployments and tailored solutions to North American customers. We’re also elevating #ANYmal to the next level - with cutting-edge features such as AI-powered analytics, expanded sensor capabilities, and deeper integrations with partners like SAP and Amazon Web Services (AWS) driving safety, efficiency, and operational excellence like never before. This remarkable progress is thanks to the unwavering support of our partners, investors, and our exceptional team of 200+ experts from over 35 nationalities, all dedicated to shaping the future of autonomous industrial inspection. 📖 Discover more about our vision https://hubs.la/Q02_n5TV0.

Saving Christmas! Ten teams compete against each other in the Innovation Project 2024 final to deliver gifts down the chimneys of model houses with their self-assembled autonomous robots. Which team will navigate the set route fastest and most accurately? Be there and cheer on the Bachelor’s degree students: https://lnkd.in/diJe4TfM Tuesday, 17 December 2024. 3.30–5.30 p.m. ETH Zentrum, Main Building, main hall Text: Deborah Kyburz Video: Nicole Davidson Involved: Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT), ETH Zurich

We did it! 💥 After just six months, our team at Project PERSEUS achieved the incredible goal of firing their rotating detonation rocket engine. This sets a landmark not only for ARIS and all our supporters but also for Switzerland's space sector in general. 🚀 Being the first student built RDRE in the WORLD and the first one at all in Switzerland, we are incredibly proud of our team and their success. But they are not planing to finish anytime soon; intending to have a Focusproject at ETH Zürich as well as follow-up Bachelor and Master Thesis at both ETH and OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, the team is set out to push more boundaries and pave the way for others to follow. 💯 It is success stories like this, that shape the image of engineering and all the academic institutions connected to it, this is how you do it! 👨🔧 ETH Hangar Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich #ProjectPERSEUS #ARIS #RocketScience #EngineeringInnovation #innovation #engineering #RDRE #SpaceExploration #ETHZurich #eth #ETHHangar #ostschweizerfachhochschule #OSTRapperswil #FutureOfSpace #switzerland #PropulsionTechnology #space #rocket #perseus