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Journal of Laboratory Automation Ten Award (JALA Ten 2013)
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The Top 10 Technological Breakthroughs selected by the Journal of Laboratory Automation - IRIS is one of the Ten honorees, awarded for their research "Selective Trapping and Manipulation of Microscale Objects Using Mobile Microvertices", by Dr. Li Zhang, Tristan Petit, Kathrin E. Peyer, Bradley Kratochvil and Bradley J. Nelson. (Full Article) |
07.02.2013 |
Simone Schürle's ZURICH.MINDS Talk
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Simone Schürle was invited to give a talk titled "Nano Robots for Medicine" at the prestigious ZURICH.MINDS event on December 12, 2012. (Talk). |
12.12.2012 |
Prof. Nelson's TEDxZurich Talk
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Prof. Brad Nelson gave a TEDxZurich Talk titled "Building Medical Robots, Bacteria sized" on October 25, 2012 featuring our Artificial Bacterial Flagella project. (Talk). |
30.11.2012 |
Oxygen sensing microrobots featured on the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Cover
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23.11.2012 |
Bio-inspired microrobots - The first intimate contact with cells - Materials Today Cover 2012
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26.10.2012 |
'Best Student Paper Award' at IROS 2012
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Congratulations to Kathrin Peyer et al., IRIS-MSRL, who received the 'Best Student Paper Award' for her paper "Movement of Artificial Bacterial Flagella in Heterogeneous Viscous Environments at the Microscale" at the IROS 2012 conference. |
09.10.2012 |
Microrobot project featured in Wired magazine
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26.06.2012 |
Welcome to Prof. Jonas Buchli & his group
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Prof. Jonas Buchli and his group of the Agile & Dexterous Robotics Lab will join IRIS as per September 1, 2012. We are excited to welcome him and his group and look forward to a strong and close collaboration. |
26.06.2012 |
Research images @ 7th MRC Graduate Symposium 2012
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This year's MRC Graduate Symposium poster session was combined with the exhibition of 25 very attractive research images. The following two images from our group were voted 1st and 3rd by the audience: |
07.06.2012 |
Prof. Nelson's Plenary Talk at ICRA2012 on techtalk.tv
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Prof. Brad Nelson gave a plenary talk at ICRA2012 titled "Robotics in the Small". The talk is available online at techtalks.tv. |
21.05.2012 |
Nanoscale Cover 2012
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21.05.2012 |
ICRA2012 Best Manipulation Paper Award nomination
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The paper "Holonomic 5-DOF Magnetic Control of 1D Nanostructures", S. Schürle, K.E. Peyer, B.E. Kratochvil and B.J. Nelson was nominated for the Best Robot Manipulation Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2012), St. Paul, MN, USA. |
19.04.2012 |
Swiss National TV (RSI1) features our ophthalmology project
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The program 'Il Giardino di Albert' on Swiss National TV featured our ophthalmology project in their episode 'Robot'. (Watch video). |
07.02.2012 |
Advanced Materials Cover 2012
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07.02.2012 |
ETH Life article about our ABF Research
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Our research on Artifical Bacterial Flagella (ABF) was featured in an ETH Life article titled "Mobile microvortex holds on to bacteria". (ETH Life article). |
21.12.2011 |
Nano Letters paper highlighted in Nature
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Our research presented in the paper "Selective Trapping and Manipulation of Microscale Objects Using Mobile Microvortices" was highlighted in Nature: Swirls move tiny objects. |
15.12.2011 |
ABFs in the Guinness Book of World Records 2012
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Our Artificial Bacterial Flagella (ABFs) made it into the Guinness Book of Records for 2012, described as "Most Advanced Mini Robot for Medical Use". Preview |
16.11.2011 |
MICCAI Society 2011 Award Finalist
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The paper "Steerable Intravitreal Inserts for Drug Delivery: In Vitro and Ex Vivo Mobility Experiments" by Christos Bergeles, Michael P. Kummer, Bradley E. Kratochvil, Carsten Framme, and Bradley J. Nelson was a finalist for the Medical Robotics and CAI Systems Award at this year's MICCAI held in Toronto 18-22 September. MICCAI 2011 is the 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. |
22.09.2011 |
Aeon Scientific wins Venture Kick
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Congratulations to the ETH Spin-off company Aeon Scientific. They have won the final round of Venture Kick and receive another 100'000 CHF in funds. (See ETH life article). |
05.07.2011 |
Best Vision Paper Finalist at ICRA2011
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The paper titled 'Model-based localization of intraocular microrobots for wireless electromagnetic control' by Dr. Christos Bergeles et al. received a finalist nomination for the Best Vision Paper Award at this year's IEEE ICRA2011. (Full paper.). |
12.05.2011 |
News Archive
Reuters features our ophtamology project
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Our ophtamology project has been featured in the technology section of Reuters.com, titled 'Tiny robot operates inside your eye'. (Video). |
11.04.2011 |
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Interview on World Radio Switzerland
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Prof. Bradley Nelson has been interviewed by World Radio Switzerland, featuring our ophthalmology project. (Interview). |
29.03.2011 |
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SEW Eurodrive Foundation - Graduate Award
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Congratulations to Ms. Kathrin Peyer who received the 'SEW Eurodrive Foundation Graduate Award' for her outstanding MSc.-Thesis titled "Characterization of Frequency-dependent Swimming Behavior for Artificial Bacterial Flagella". (More information). |
14.03.2011 |
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Materials Today Cover 2011
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10.12.2010 |
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'Best Paper Award' at the IEEE-NANOMED 2010
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Congratulations to Dr. Li Zhang et al., IRIS, who received the 'Best Paper Award' for his paper "Noncontact and Contact Micromanipulation Using a Rotating Nickel Nanowire" at the IEEE-NANOMED 2010 conference. |
07.12.2010 |
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'Dean of Invention' features our ophthalmology project
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The Discovery channel's new format 'Dean of Invention' featured our ophthalmology project in their episode 'Meet the Microbots - Can Microscopic Robots Cure Blindness?'. (Watch video). |
01.11.2010 |
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Prof. Brad Nelson elected RAS AdCom member
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The members of the Robotics and Automation Society have elected Prof. Nelson to serve on the Administrative Committee for a three year term beginning in January 2011. (More information). |
15.09.2010 |
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Swiss Startups.ch Award 2010 for Aeon Scientific
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Our spin-off Aeon Scientific, IRIS-MSRL, has won the national Swiss Startups.ch Award 2010. Out of over a 100 participants, they were selected by a combined voting from both an expert jury and the online public. (More information). |
15.09.2010 |
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Best Student Award for Europe at the EMBC2010
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Olgac Ergeneman, a doctoral student at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems in D-MAVT, received the Best Student Paper Award for Europe at the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC2010) held in Buenos Aires 31 Aug to 4 Sept 2010. His paper entitled “Oxygen Sensing Using Microrobots” also received Second Prize Overall. The prize is sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation. |
07.09.2010 |
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The Cyborg Fly Project - finalist of the National Instruments Robotics design award & article in IEEE Spectrum
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The Cyborg Fly Project is a collaboration between the 'Fly Group' at ETH/University of Zurich, led by Stefen Fry and the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Prof. Nelson's lab. The project was a finalist in the robotics cateogry at this year's Graphical System Design Achievement Awards, an event organized by National Instruments. An article about the project has been published online at the IEEE Spectrum website (full article). |
27.08.2010 |
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1st price for poster at the MRC Symposia 2010, ETH Zurich
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The poster titled 'Luminiscence oxygen sensing with a wireless intraocular microrobot', by George Chatzpirpiridis, Olgaç Ergeneman, Juho Pokki, Salvador Pané, George Sotiriou and Bradley J. Nelson, has been awarded the first price at the Materials Research Center Symposium 2010. |
10.05.2010 |
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Four awards & one finalist nomination at ICRA2010
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At this year's ICRA2010, four awards go to IRIS-MSRL: the best student paper award for 'Non-Ideal Swimming of Artificial Bacterial Flagella Near a Surface', the best manipulation paper award for 'OctoMag: An Electromagnetic System for 5-DOF Wireless Micromanipulation' and two awards for the winning team of the ICRA2010 Robot Challenge. The video 'OctoMag: An Electromagnetic System for 5-DOF Wireless Manipulation' was nominated for the best video award. Congratulations to all. |
07.05.2010 |
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Strong boron-cotton indicates future promise
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A joint research project between American and Chinese researchers, together with Prof. Brad Nelson and Dr. Lixin Dong, recently published a paper in "Advanced Materials" about cotton reinforced with boron carbide. The material is tough and hard but nonetheless elastic - but although these properties indicate future promise, it is not yet bulletproof. |
21.04.2010 |
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Workshop Announcement
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The Workshop on Mobile Microrobots will be held as part of ICRA 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska. The workshop will encompass discussions on a variety of wireless actuation and sensing technologies, as well as control methodologies and future applications. |
08.01.2010 |
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Article in NewScientist
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There's an article in the NewScientist titled 'Rise of the medibots', featuring our ophtalmic robot (Full article). |
02.12.2009 |
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Swiss Technology Award for Femtotools
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05.11.2009 |
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Microscopy Prize of the SSOM
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Dr. Bradley E. Kratochvil won the 2009 Prize of the Swiss Society for Optics and Microscopy for his contributions in the field of 'Microscopy', for his work on "Visual Tracking for Nanorobotic Manipulation and 3D Reconstruction in an Electron Microscope". |
02.11.2009 |
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Nano Today Cover 2009
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17.08.2009 |
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Welcome to Prof. Fumiya Iida & his group
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Prof. Fumiya Iida and his group of the Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory officially joined IRIS as per August 1, 2009. We are excited to welcome him and his group and look forward to a strong and close collaboration. |
13.08.2009 |
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IRIS Team won RoboCup'09
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06.07.2009 |
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Best Automation Paper & Best Student Paper Award
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The paper "Design and Calibration of a Microfabricated 6-Axis Force-Torque Sensor for Microrobotic Applications" by Felix Beyeler, Simon Muntwyler, and Bradley J. Nelson won the Best Automation Paper and the Best Student Paper-Award at ICRA2009. |
15.05.2009 |
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"Schwimmende Roboter in der Blutbahn"
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An article about our "Artificial Bacterial Flagella" project was published in "20Min" and "ETH Life" (German only). |
06.04.2009 |
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"Honey, I shrunk the physician"
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A coverage on our microrobot, ARES and artificial bacteria flagella projects was aired on the program 'nuovo', Swiss-Romande Television (see video). |
05.12.2008 |
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Winner image for Nano Today Cover 2009
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30.10.2008 |
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Article & Movie on NewScientist
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There's an article about our "Flyborg" project in NewScientist: 'Computer game for flies drives robotics forwards'. This is a collaboration between IRIS and INI, Dr. Steven Fry. (Full Article & Video) |
01.10.2008 |
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Article & Movie on MIT Technology Review
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There's an article titled 'Building a Self-Assembling Stomach-Bot' about our ARES-Project. (Full Article) |
22.09.2008 |
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2nd Prize of Micrograph contest in MNE08
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18.09.2008 |
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Article in 'The Economist'
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In this week's issue of 'The Economist', there's an article titled 'Swallow the Surgeon', featuring our intraocular microrobot as well as our research contributing to the ARES project. (Full Article) |
05.09.2008 |
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Report about Nanorobots on BBC News
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On 'Click', the BBC's flagship technology programme, there has been a report about Nanorobotic research at ETH Zurich, titled 'Looking ahead to tiny technology', featuring a.o. our Magmites. |
15.08.2008 |
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Podcast
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Prof. Bradley Nelson talks Biomicrorobotics on EPFL's Talking Robots. |
05.05.2008 |
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Welcome to Prof. Robert Riener & his group
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Prof. Robert Riener and his group of the Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory will officially join forces with IRIS as per March 1, 2008. We are excited to welcome him and his groups and look forward to a strong and close collaboration. |
01.03.2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes for nanorobotics
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An article about "Carbon nanotubes for nanorobotics" will be published in the December issue of the Nano Today, Vol. 2, No. 6. |
19.11.2007 |
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Magmites
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In the November issue of the STZ/Swiss Engineering Magazine, there's an article about our Microrobot generation "Magmite". (German only). |
12.11.2007 |
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TechDay@KSL
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30.10.2007 |
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Life Science Automation - Fundamentals and Applications
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24.10.2007 |
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IRIS-Students won the Nanogram Robotic Soccer Competition
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14.07.2007 |
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Article in the MIT Technology Review online |
An article about our Nanocoils titled "Propellers for Microrobots" was featured online in the MIT Technology Review. |
24.04.2007 |
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Article on Nanowerk online |
An article titled "Mind the gap - nanotechnology robotics vision versus lab reality" was featured on Nanowerk.com. |
24.04.2007 |
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Article on medGadget online |
An article titled "Robotic Nanoflagella" was featured on medGadget, the internet journal of emerging medical technologies. |
24.04.2007 |
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Cover picture and featured article in Nanotechnology |
A recent IRIS publication was selected as a featured article by Nanotechnology with a cover picture: A. Subramanian, L. X. Dong, J. Tharian, U. Sennhauser, and B. J. Nelson, Batch Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Bearings, Nanotechnology, Vol. 18, No. 7, Art. No. 075703, Feb. 2007. |
12.03.2007 |
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T-ASE Googol Best New Application Paper Award |
A 2006 IRIS publication was recently selected for the T-ASE Googol Best New Application Paper Award: L. X. Dong, B. J. Nelson, T. Fukuda, and F. Arai, Towards Nanotube Linear Servomotors, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 228-235, July 2006. |
12.03.2007 |
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Finalist for the ICRA'07 Best Automation Paper Award |
A recent IRIS publication has been selected as one of the three finalists for the ICRA'07 Best Automation Paper Award: L. X. Dong, X. Y. Tao, L. Zhang, X. B. Zhang, and B. J. Nelson, Nanorobotic Spot Welding by Attogram Precision Metal Deposition from Copper-filled Carbon Nanotubes, Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics & Automation (ICRA2007), Roma, Italy, April 10-14, 2007. |
12.03.2007 |
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Article in Nanotechweb |
A recent IRIS publication was highlighted by Nanotechweb: A. Subramanian, L. X. Dong, J. Tharian, U. Sennhauser, and B. J. Nelson, Batch Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Bearings, Nanotechnology, Vol. 18, No. 7, Art. No. 075703, Feb. 2007. |
12.03.2007 |
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Article in New Scientist |
Our research on "Nanorobotic Spot Welding" was highlighted by New Scientist magazine in Nano-welds herald new era of electronics, Tom Simonite, Vol. 391, no. 2577, p. 6, Dec. 19, 2006. |
12.03.2007 |
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Article in Science |
Our research on "3D helical nanostructures" was highlighted by Science in News Focus: Nanotechnology: Pretty as You Please, Curling Films Turn Themselves into Nanodevices, Vol. 313, pp.164-165, 2006. |
12.03.2007 |
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Bottom-up collaboration |
An article in Nature Nanotechnology about a collaboration between our Institute and Prof. Xiaobin Zhang’s group in Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China in the field of NanoRobotics illustrates the effectiveness of Bottom-Up collaborations in research (full article). |
05.02.2007 |
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Article in Nature Nanozone |
An article about "Spot-welding with Nanotubes" has been published online in Nature Nanozone. |
03.01.2007 |
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Article at Nanowerk.com |
An article about our "Nanorobotic Spot Welding" research has been published online at the Nanowerk Spotlight. |
20.12.2006 |
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Article in AUTOMATE NOW |
The European Robotic Network (EURON) published an article about the Swiss robotic scene in the AUTOMATE NOW (German only). |
26.09.2006 |
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Article in the BioPharm Bulletin |
An article about the Microrobot-Project has been published in the BioPharm Bulletin |
31.07.2006 |
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Tomorrow Today |
A video clip (named "Tomorrow Today", dated June 25, 2006) about our Drosophila-Project has been featured online on DW-World.de - Deutsche Welle. |
26.06.2006 |
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Tomorrow Today |
A video clip (named "Tomorrow Today", dated June 25, 2006) about our Drosophila-Project has been featured online on DW-World.de - Deutsche Welle. |
26.06.2006 |
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Article about our Microrobot-Project |
An article about our Microrobot-Project has been published in the Financial Times Deutschland. |
26.06.2006 |
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"Editor's Choice" in Science |
One of our recently published Nano Letters papers has been selected as an "Editor's Choice" in the 23 June issue of Science. |
23.06.2006 |
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Welcome to Prof. Roland Siegwart of EPFL & his group and to the Center for Product Design |
Prof. Roland Siegwart of EPFL has been elected the Professor of Autonomous Systems at ETH-Zurich. His Autonomous Systems Laboratory will officially join forces with IRIS later this year. Also, he takes over leadership of the Center for Product Design. We are excited to welcome both groups and look forward to a strong and close collaboration. |
10.02.2006 |
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Prof. Bradley Nelson named to the "Scientific American 50" |
Prof. Bradley Nelson named "Research Leader" for contributions in nanorobotic manufacturing on the 2005 "Scientific American 50". |
12.11.2005 |
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international Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM2005) |
Dominic Frutiger participated as member of the ETH-team in the international Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM2005) in Synthetic Biology. ETH won the awards for "Precision Engineering", "Most Sensitive Analysis" and "Best Wiki". Read the News Feature Nature Vol.438 and the article in ETHlife (german). |
12.11.2005 |
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Microrobotic-Project on MTW |
A video clip about our Microrobotic-Project has been featured on "Menschen, Technik, Wissenschaft (MTW)", SF1 lately. |
20.10.2005 |
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Article on the Discovery Channel |
An article about our Microrobotic-Project, titled "Microscopic Robot Heads for Surgery" has been featured on the Discovery Channel. |
30.08.2005 |
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ETH Medal for outstanding Diploma Thesis |
We congratulate Mr. Philipp Exner on the ETH Medal he was awarded for his outstanding Diploma Thesis on "Design of a Computer Controlled Magnetic Steering System for Biomicrorobots". |
10.08.2005 |
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Finalist for the Best Paper Award at IROS2005 |
A recent IRIS publication was a finalist for the Best Paper Award at this year's IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005): L.X. Dong, A. Subramanian, B.J. Nelson and Y. Sun , “Single Nanotube Array Based Nano Encoders,” Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton, Canada, August 2005. |
10.08.2005 |
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