RobotHub – The ZHAW Hub for Robotics
The RobotHub is a virtual organisation of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences that highlights initiatives on the topic of robotics across departments, coordinates projects and channels enquiries.
We develop smart sensors and control algorithms for assistive robots using brain-inspired neuromorphic technology: e.g. event-based vision systems, taktile sensors and robotic controllers. This technology will enable fast real-time perception, cognition, motion planning, and control, required for safe and effective robotic manipulation in human vicinity.
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Our collaboration partners in the context of robotics
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We want to facilitate the collaboration of different perspectives in the service robot development, ensuring the effectivity and quality of robot service provisions together and for humans and suitable human-technology interfaces.
Our collaborator partners in the context of robotics
- Healthcare organisations (i.e. hospitals, care homes)
- Associations
- Interest groups
We are the contact point for technologies in healthcare. ZHAW GEKONT pools the competences available at the ZHAW that are necessary for the benefit-oriented development, implementation and application of healthcare technologies.
Our collaboration partners in the context of robotics
- Digital health center bülach
- Healthcare organisations
- Associations
- Public authorities
The ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) is a hub for excellence in applied AI research and application, focusing on five key areas of research, namely, Autonomous Learning Systems; Computer Vision, Perception and Cognition; Trustworthy AI, and AI Engineering. In the field of autonomous learning systems research, we focus on (deep) reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, neuro-symbolic AI and embodied AI, aiming to optimise processes and enhance autonomy in various domains including manufacturing, healthcare, retail, transportation, digital farming, weather forecasting, earth observation and many more. We are particularly interested in the design and development of intelligent systems that create a feedback loop between perception (processing of incoming sensor data) and action (execution of actions that influence the environment to be perceived: perception-action loop).
Our collaboration partners in the context of robotics
- Stiftung Rieter
- NCCR Automation
- Zurich UAS Racing
- Skyguide
- Matternet
The Department of Health combines expertise from various aspects of health (occupational therapy, midwifery, nursing, physiotherapy, public health) in teaching and research. Various experts at the department cooperate in the development, implementation, application and teaching of robotic aids, be it assistance robots, social robots or therapy robotics. The focus here is on the user-centred approach so that there is a real benefit for those affected and healthcare professionals.
- 2025 Community event in Switzerland (Details to follow)
- 21./22.11.24 open-i 2024 - The Swiss Innovation Platform
- 15.11.2024 Presentation of Unitree G1 «Roboter-Premiere in Winterthur»
- 01.11.2024 Swiss Robotics Day 2024, Bern (exhibitors)
- 02.09.2024 Workshop at the Digital Health Lab Day 2024 «Co-design of Service Robots in Healthcare: Multiple perspectives and stakeholders» in Winterthur
- RobotCare Establishment of an international network for stakeholders in care homes: Contact us
- DIZH Fellowship «Neuromorphic technology for embodied AI»
- Collaboration with WAIYS: «Emerging AI and computing technologies»
- DIZH Founder Call «YuRo: Real-Time 3D vision for robots»
- SNF Practice to Science «Brain-inspired vision technologies for assistive robots»
Projects
Unfortunately, no list of projects can be displayed here at the moment. Until the list is available again, the project search on the ZHAW roof page can be used.
Publications
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Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Flumini, Dandolo; Hauser, Helmut; Hunt, Kenneth J.; Luchsinger, Rolf H.; Scheidegger, Stephan,
2013.
Morphological control as guiding principle in physiology and medical applications.
In:
Int. Workshop on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation, Ascona, 19 July 2013.
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2012.
Morphological computation and control : from robotics to implications on anticancer treatment.
In:
Research Colloquium 2012, Aarau, 8. November 2012.
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Miyashita, Shuhei; Tientcheu Ngouabeu, Aubery Marchel; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Nakajima, Kohei; Audretsch, Christof; Pfeifer, Rolf,
2011.
Basic problems in self-assembling robots and a case study of segregation on tribolon platform
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In:
Meng, Yan; Yaochu, Jin, eds.,
Bio-inspired self-organizing robotic systems.
Berlin:
Springer.
pp. 173-191.
Studies in computational intelligence ; 355.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20760-0_8
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Tientcheu Ngouabeu, Aubery Marchel; Miyashita, Shuhei; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Nakajima, Kohei; Göldi, Maurice; Pfeifer, Rolf,
2010.
Self-organized segregation effect on self-assembling robots [paper].
In:
Fellermann, Harold; Dörr, Mark; Hanczyc, Martin M.; Ladegaard Laursen, Lone; Maurer, Sarah; Merkle, Daniel; Monnard, Pierre Alain; Støy, Kasper; Rasmussen, Steen, eds.,
Artificial live XII : proceedings of the twelfth international conference on the synthesis and simulation of living systems.
The 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Odense, Denmark, 19-23 August 2010.
Cambridge:
MIT Press.
pp. 232-238.
Artificial life ; 12.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4112
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Seatovic, Dejan; van de Venn, Hans Wernher,
2008.
In:
Intelligente mechatronische Systeme.
Internationales Forum Mechatronik 2008, 22. & 23. September 2008.
Stuttgart:
Kompetenznetzwerk Mechatronik BW.
pp. 280.