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Article on Dynamic Leg Press in ASVZ magazine

AI Lab Spin-off Dynamic Devices is featured in issue 1/2012 of "GO! – Das Magazin des ASVZ" (Zurich's academic sport association)!

Davide Scaramuzza at the AI Lab

We welcome Davide Scaramuzza as the new NCCR Robotics Professor here at the AI Lab!

NZZ Standpunkte on Swiss TV

On 19 February 2012 at 13:10, Swiss TV station SF 1 will broadcast NZZ Standpunkte. In this show Rolf Pfeifer will be interviewed by two journalists for 50 minutes. It will be repeated on SF info at 18:25 on the same day.

Finalist of Best Paper in Biomimetics

The paper "Information Theoretic Analysis on a Soft Robotic Arm Inspired by the Octopus" by Kohei Nakajima, Tao Li, Hidenobu Sumioka, Matteo Cianchetti, and Rolf Pfeifer is among the finalists for the ROBIO 2011 best paper award!

AI Lab Teaser Video

Check our new AI Lab video teaser, made by MELS!

Sino-Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation

Our Sino-Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation (SSSTC) proposal has been accepted! This will enable us to more closely collaborate with the Autonomous Robot Laboratory at the Department of Automation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, whose director is Prof. Weidong Chen.

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AI Lab and maxon motor start collaboration

Sachseln, Switzerland, 09.09.2009

AI Lab partners with maxon motor, the leading supplier of high-precision drives and systems.

AI Lab at Swissnex Shanghai

19 May 2009

Rolf Pfeifer will give a presentation of the ShanghAI Lectures at Swissnex Shanghai.

Call for volunteers

We are now looking for volunteers (people with hand amputation) for an fMRI study using the robot hand with tactile feedback. Please read the call for volunteers for more information or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

SNF Professorship for Fumiya Iida

Fumiya Iida, a former PhD student of IfI (at the AI Lab) has been awarded an SNF Professorship. He will be working at ETH Zurich in the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Congratulations!

SCIENCEsuisse about Rolf Pfeifer

16 November 2008, 16:50 on channel SF 1

Rolf Pfeifer featured in SCIENCEsuisse, a TV series about Swiss researchers

Book review in Nature Neuroscience

Book review in "Nature Neuroscience" (vol 11 no 1): How robots will teach us how the brain works

University of Zurich is 175 years old

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AI Lab website online

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Publication in Science

Pfeifer, R., Lungarella, M., & Iida, F. (2007). Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics. Science, 318(5853), 1088-1093

Brain Science Podcast

Brain Science Podcast #25: Rolf Pfeifer discusses Embodied Intelligence