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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Development of a robotized directional light unit for dentist chair, by providing AI capability to automatically assess the situation and the position/orientation of a patient’s face and features, to automatize the positioning and the activation of the light, without any manual input.
Founded in 1991, Idiap is an independent, nonprofit research foundation based in Martigny. It is affiliated with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and is one of the most active independent research institutions in information technology. Idiap has a long history of contributions in AI. The Robot Learning & Interaction group, created in 2014 and headed by Dr Sylvain Calinon, is expert in combining learning and optimization approaches to facilitate the transfer of manipulation skills to robots.
Based in Lausanne, Switzerland with offices in Tokyo, Japan and Sydney, Australia, NVISO has been active for the past 15 years in the development of edge-AI solutions for human behavior in smart mobility, health and living applications. With about 20 AI models for human behavior in the AI App Catalogue, NVISO is currently in position to assist building machines that understand and interact with humans through our holistic platform approach.

