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Flink Robotics, a newly founded D-INFK spin-off, is crafting cutting-edge software for next-generation robots to enable automation anywhere and for everyone. Professor Stelian Coros, doctoral student Simon Huber and former postdoc Moritz Geilinger are the co-founders.

During the COVID-​19 pandemic, hospitals often became hubs of infection. Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, EPFL and the ISI Foundation are developing a wearable tracking system for healthcare facilities that can identify the risks of infections. Initial tests in Switzerland and Africa show its potential.

Lindt & Sprüngli, a global leader in the premium chocolate sector, has partnered with EthonAI. The company is a spin-off from the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics and has Bernhard Kratzwald, an alumnus from the Department of Computer Science on board as a co-founder. Lindt & Sprüngli is leveraging EthonAI's tools to perfect the production of their chocolate and achieve best-in-class performance.

For a two-​part interview, we visit our alumnus Tobias Nägeli. In this second part, Tobias gives us an insight into his former student days and tells us how he met his three co-founders. Additionally, we learn more about the skills from his studies that benefit him today as CEO.

For a two-part interview, we visit our alumnus Tobias Nägeli. In this first part, we learn more about the turbulent times of founding the spin-off Tinamu and how Tobias and his three co-founders managed to find the right market for their technology. We also discover the connection between starting a business and his two hobbies, marathon running and paragliding, and how a tragic accident influenced his willingness to take risks.

3db Access is a pioneer in secure low-power Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology, and their integrated products enable a broad range of applications, such as secure vehicle access. It was co-founded by ETH Alumni Dr Boris Danev (D-INFK), and Dr David Barras (D-ITET) and two of our faculty members, Professors Srdjan Capkun and David Basin. By joining forces, 3db Access and Infineon want to create full system solutions in the market opportunities of secured, connected devices.

Together with the Handelszeitung, PME and Digitalswitzerland, BILANZ has selected the 100 most important minds for the digitisation of Switzerland. Among them are several current and former D-INFK members and spin-offs.

The indoor drone company Tinamu Labs, a spin-off from the Department of Computer Science, has secured fresh capital in a pre-series A financing round of CHF 1 million to speed up growth and development.

Companies process dozens of customer orders, order confirmations, delivery notes, and invoices every day. Our spin-off BLP Digital is revolutionising resource planning with an application that saves costs and reduces the potential for errors.  

Riccardo Roveri è cofondatore di Animatico, una spin-off del Politecnico Federale di Zurigo che ha creato avatar interattivi ed è stata acquisita nel 2022 da NVIDIA. In questa intervista, ci parla del suo amore per la grafica digitale e di cosa abbia significato per lui trasferirsi da Lugano a Zurigo per portare avanti gli studi.

Riccardo Roveri has co-founded Animatico, an ETH spin-off that creates interactive avatars and was acquired by NVIDIA in 2022. In this interview, he talks about his love for computer graphics and how he experienced moving from Lugano to Zurich for his studies.

Computer vision, next-generation human-computer interface and augmented reality make for successful spin-offs. Founded in 2009 by D-INFK researchers, Scandit is one of 2022’s three unicorns coming from ETH. Animatico and the recently founded Aperion XR also have a bright future ahead.

Beekeeper, a spin-off from the Department of Computer Science, has raised 50 million US dollars in its most recent round of funding. The Beekeeper platform helps companies connect with "deskless" frontline workers.

LatticeFlow, a spin-off from the Department of Computer Science, raises $12M to eliminate computer vision blind spots. The company helps machine learning teams improve their AI vision models by automatically diagnosing issues and improving both the data and the models themselves.

Congratulations to our spin-off DeepJudge and the student start-up Alter Ego for winning Venture Awards for Swiss start-ups. DeepJudge placed second in the category ICT while Alter Ego took third place in Retail and Consumer Services.  

ETH alumna Paulina Grnarova wants to use artificial intelligence to revolutionise the way the legal industry works. Her recent appearance on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list has catapulted her into the spotlight.

The LegalTech spin-​off from the Computer Science Department DeepJudge assists law firms, corporations, and courts by making data-​sensitive administrative work more efficient.

Flavio Pfaffhauser completed his Master's degree in computer science at ETH Zurich in 2010. Today, as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) and co-founder of the ETH spin-off Beekeeper, it is his mission to take the rising software provider to the top of the world.

Meet Albert Einstein at the upcoming Scientifica on September 4 and 5, brought back to life by Prof. Markus Gross, the Game Technology Center and D-INFK spin-off Animatico.

DeepCode, a spin-​off of the Secure, Reliable and Intelligent Systems Lab that built the first AI platform for code, is to be acquired by Snyk, a world leader in developer-​first security code analysis.

Christian Schüller, co-​founder of the ETH Spin-​off Animatico, explains how animated, talking avatars are set to simplify interactions with computers in everyday life.

Entering invoices, checking delivery slips, auditing expense receipts – all these tasks can be tedious and repetitive. ETH spin-off BLP Digital invented a solution to provide some relief.

The team from ChainSecurity AG, an ETH spin-off from the Department of Computer Science, joined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Switzerland to further accelerate market growth and product development.

Self-​driving cars, the automatic detection of cancer cells, online translation: deep learning makes it all possible. The ETH spin-​off Mirage Technologies has developed a deep learning platform that aims to help start-​ups and companies more quickly develop and optimise their products.

Can you turn a semester project into a business idea? Yes, of course! The video game Unrailed!, developed by Hendrik Baatz, Thomas Lang, Lukas Rahmann and Thomas Wolf as part of the Game Programming Laboratory course, has garnered worldwide interest at trade shows and in the media. On 9 September 2019, it became the first game developed at the Department of Computer Science to be commercially available.

Electronic devices can spark kids’ creativity, says Stéphane Magnenat from the Game Technology Center. But doing so requires apps that bridge the real and virtual worlds.

The foundations for internet communication were laid down in the previous century and have undergone very little modernisation since. With their spin-off Anapaya Systems, Adrian Perrig, David Basin and Peter Müller, professors at the ETH Zurich Department of Computer Science, want to bring the internet into the 21st century and make it a secure and reliable means of communication.

ETH Zurich spin-​off ChainSecurity has discovered a vulnerability in a scheduled upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain platform – in the nick of time.

Producing realistic animated film figures is a highly complex technical endeavour. ETH researchers have now shown how drones can be used to greatly reduce the effort required in the process.

In June 2018, the start-​up ChainSecurity released Securify, a novel tool that enables an easier and more thorough scanning process for smart contracts in the Ethereum ecosystem. Dr Petar Tsankov, chief scientist at ChainSecurity and research scientist at ETH Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab at the Department of Computer Science, gives an insight into the novel technology and its benefits.

In future, patients will be able to see the outcome of dental treatment even before the dentist starts working on their teeth. This is made possible by a “virtual mirror” developed by an ETH spin-off.

The ETH computer science spin-off SpinningBytes programs software that uses machine learning not only to analyse but also to understand huge amounts of data.

In May 2007, Dybuster sent its first 23 software packages in the post. A decade later, this spin-off has helped over 100,000 users with dyslexia and dyscalculia.

A start-​up formed by a group of IT specialists at ETH Zurich has come up with a simple and user-​friendly way to enhance network security. The Futurae team has already won 130,000 Swiss francs start-​up capital from Venture Kick.

An ETH spin-​off, xorlab, has ambitious plans: it has developed a unique IT security solution that provides more effective protection against hacker attacks. Now the product is about to undergo crucial trials in a real business environment.

Big data is hot news. The opportunities for analysing huge amounts of unstructured data are highly valued in industry and science, yet there is also concern about data protection. ETH information technology professor Donald Kossmann researches and teaches in the field of big data and is convinced that the benefits will outweigh the risks.