Alumni Stories
Robotics Hackathon 2025: Ambitious builders compete in Zurich
From 9 to 11 May, Zurich hosted the inaugural Robotics Hackathon 2025, bringing together ambitious innovators to design and build robots. This intense and inspiring weekend was initiated and organised by three ETH Zurich students.
Readying robots for new tasks
The ETH spin-off Flink Robotics wants to revolutionize the handling of packages. Its founders Moritz Geilinger and Simon Huber, both former computer science students, have developed software that allows robots to work together and quickly take on new tasks.
QS World University Rankings by subject
QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) unveiled its 2025 World University Rankings by subject. ETH Zurich landed with 3 subjects in the top spot. A further 16 placed within the top ten in the world, among them Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (rank 8) and Computer Science and Information Systems (rank 10).
What connects AI, Albert Einstein, and Roald Dahl? David Dao!
In this We Are ETH podcast episode, David Dao, D-INFK alumnus, co-founder and chief scientist of GainForest, talks about his journey from climate activism, his experiences at the COP climate conferences to winning the XPRIZE.
ETH Zurich remains in top place in THE Rankings
ETH Zurich has once again been recognised as one of the world’s top universities in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings. The university has maintained 11th place for the third consecutive year. The rankings also identify areas where the university has potential for further development.