Funded Projects Funded Projects We have the pleasure of announcing the winners in response to Call for Proposals. We thank all teams who put the effort and time into submitting their applications.
Call 4 - 2023 Soft Sensor patch for assessment of product texture The project proposes a soft skin patch with a robotic actuator for bio-inspired texture assessment, enabling rapid product development and technology transfer to the Swiss Industry.
Call 4 - 2023 VIRAS: Visually Impaired Robot-Assisted Shopping The aim of this project consists in developping an autonomous shopping cart designed for the blind and visually impaired that enables them to conduct their purchases independently. The self-driving cart navigates to products and acoustically guides the user’s hand to his desired items.
Call 4 - 2023 Design, manufacturing and testing of a self-stressed protective shell and its integration into an industrial inspection drone The aim of this project consists in the development, integration and testing of a new self-stressed protective envelope specifically designed and optimized for integration on ASIO drone.
Call 4 - 2023 Active perturbation for sensorimotor therapy Active perturbation for sensorimotor therapy project is exploring therapeutically perturbation training in outpatient settings with a compact robotic module.
Call 4 - 2023 R2HOME R2HOME is a robot that guides radiodonde’s return on earth to a precise landing point. The equipment is intact and can be reused, enabling the launch and return of a growing number of sondes.
Call 4 - 2023 AI-powered directional light unit for intelligent dentist chairs This project develops 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.
Call 3 - 2023 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) mounted passive water sampling system for autonomous environmental DNA collection This project develops a system to collect and passively filter water based environmental DNA samples autonomously from a UAV.
Call 3 - 2023 RoboBrush The project aims to integrate a commercial ready-to-use brushing tool (wire-brush) into a mobile robotic platform (autonomous grinding and brushing robot).
Call 3 - 2023 Collaborative robotic surgery assistant: Intuitive one hand-guided endoscopic tool holder The project aims to develop an Intuitive one hand guided endoscopic tool holder manipulation assistant based on a Stäubli TX2-60L with a native implementation of real-time communication/external commands.
Call 3 - 2023 Design study of an autonomous mobile robot for surface finishing tasks The project aims to design an autonomous construction robot for plastering tasks, focusing on whole-body motion control and innovative hardware design to overcome existing solution limitations.
Call 2 - 2022 Flexible Pick and Place for Transparent Micro-devices In this project, a robotic solution for picking and placing glass micro-devices that is generic enough to be rapidly adapted to new products by the company itself will be developed.
Call 2 - 2022 Investigating robot-assisted thermal ablation of complex liver malignancies in a perfused ex-vivo model Current clinical challenges of thermal ablation treatment can be surpassed through synchronous robot-assisted probe retraction and energy modulation.
Call 2 - 2022 EMG-controlled hand exoskeleton for assistance and rehabilitation in motor-impaired patients This project will develop a hand exoskeleton directly controlled by non-invasive muscular signals (EMG), to support people with motor-impairments (e.g. after stroke or orthopedic injuries), during therapy and in activities of daily living.
Call 2 - 2022 Ascento – Automated Security Patrolling on large outdoor properties Ascento has developed a robot-as-a-service security solution that can patrol outdoors properties and alert guards when anomalies are detected. Being all-weather and all-terrain, the solution can help anyone needing outdoor patrols above 8h/day.
Call 2 - 2022 FireDrone Environmental factors such as extreme temperatures limit the operation window of drones. The FireDrone project will develop miniature drones for extreme environment applications, utilizing high performance functional materials and system designs.
Call 1 - 2022 Walk’n’roll – Hybrid walking-rolling wheel for mobile field robotics Standard wheels are extremely energy efficient on flat terrains while legs are more agile and can acclimate to difficult terrains. Walk’n’roll is able to address both the energy efficiency on flat terrain and the agility for the terrains that are inaccessible to vehicles with wheels.
Call 1 - 2022 SEEZER – The eye in hand grasper for precise micro assembly tasks The project will develop an eye-in-hand grasper, i.e. a robotic grasper/tweezer with an integrated miniature camera between the gripper’s fingers.
Call 1 - 2022 Autonomous Wind Turbine LPS Measurement The inspection of a wind turbine lightning protection system is tough. The Voliro T robot can perform this inspection faster than anyone else.
Call 1 - 2022 Robot intelligence for parcel logistics Our goal is to pack box-shaped items into a container. We extend the computational framework from our research to build the artificial intelligence that gives the robot hardware the ability to adapt its motions to new situations.
Call 1 - 2022 SEEZER – Compliant gripper for motor assembly automation Design solutions for a compliant self-sensing gripper for motor assembly automation.
