The Innovation Booster Robotics was active from 2021 to 2025 as a Swiss initiative supported by Innosuisse. This website is its legacy page. Throughout its duration, the Booster created and strengthened a national community fostering an open innovation culture in robotics. It brought together key players across academia, industry, startups, and public stakeholders to explore new ideas, catalyze collaborations, and accelerate technology transfer and innovation.
Although the Innovation Booster Robotics program has concluded, our mission continues through the Swiss Robotics Association (SRA), a standalone initiative dedicated to serving as a national networking hub for robotics stakeholders across Switzerland and fostering long-term collaboration, visibility, and impact. Visit the Swiss Robotics Association.
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The project aims at leveraging small and medium-sized motors as sensors. Motors are often located close to components being moved, an ideal place for picking up information and running integrated anomaly detection on a machine learning-enabled microcontroller.
The Institute for Microelectronics, Embedded Systems and Sensors (IMES), at OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, in Rapperswil, is specialized in electronics research and development. They push boundaries in terms of size, power and speed in microelectronics, embedded systems, sensor and actuator technology, and electronic engineering – Tiny to the Top.
Hamilton Robotics – Hamilton Company
Hamilton Robotics’ main domain is highly efficient and precise liquid handling robots used for various applications in clinical diagnostics, bio-pharma and research. Hamilton plays a leading role in the market and continues to innovate with new technologies that regularly find their way to customers with new products related to liquid handling combined with high precision robotics.
The Swiss specialist for quality drives. maxon is the leading provider of precision electric motors and drive systems and develops drive solutions tailored to customers’ needs in the fields of medical technology, industrial automation, aerospace, mobility, and robotics. The Swiss company, which was founded in 1961, is owned by the Braun family and has its headquarters in Sachseln, Switzerland.

