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.
Participants:
Autonomous Systems Lab – ETH Zurich – ASL is a robotics research laboratory whose mission and dedication is to create robots and intelligent systems that are able to autonomously operate in complex and diverse environments.
Ascento – Ascento supports professionals to secure, maintain and inspect their outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting their data capturing capability with Robotics and AI.
SBB – Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is the largest rail and transport company of Switzerland.
Securitas – Securitas is the largest security provider in Switzerland for companies, authorities and private individuals, wishing to make everyday life safer. “Effective solutions for individual security needs”
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.
Interested in the Ascento Security Solution?
Please contact Ascento directly through their website to get more information and find out when you could have your own system installed.

