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 secure and reliable interactive communication framework for human-environment interaction, designed to create a dynamic, responsive, and safe IoT-based ecosystem. In this ecosystem, smart furniture enhances the built environment to optimize and augment human capabilities.
The Laboratory of Sensing and Networking Systems (SENS) at EPFL, led by Professor Haitham Hassanieh, specializes in designing and implementing systems with real-world impacts in wireless networking, IoT and mobile systems, wireless imaging, and sensing. Their expertise in ultra-reliable, low-latency communication systems is critical for enabling safe and seamless human-environment interactions through IoT and wireless sensing networks.
MIROS Technology, an EPFL robotics spin-off, aims at redefining living spaces to optimize the use of buildings through adaptive and transformable rooms made of innovative smart furniture networks. The goal is to integrate multiple functions in single spaces to reduce the unused spaces in the work environment. Their expertise is a blend of robotics, human-machine interaction, IoT and interior design engineering.

