Zürich, Switzerland

ETH Zürich

Europe's strongest legged-robotics lineage, plus a serious push on trustworthy and open models.

2 key findings1 timeline milestones2 sources to follow

Key findings

2019
Learning agile and dynamic locomotion
Hwangbo, Hutter et al.
Trained locomotion policies in simulation with a learned actuator model and transferred them to hardware without tuning.
Why it matters here · Sim-to-real with actuator modelling is now the standard recipe for quadrupeds and humanoids across the robotics segment.
2022
Perceptive locomotion in the wild
Miki, Hutter et al.
Fused proprioception with terrain perception so a robot degrades gracefully when vision fails.
Why it matters here · The robustness bar industrial inspection robots are sold against.

Milestones on the 1943 → today timeline credited to this institution.

1993Quantum complexity theory and BQPEthan Bernstein & Umesh VaziraniConnectionist revival

Research lab · Continuous

Robot learning, trustworthy AI and the open Swiss LLM effort with EPFL.

Research lab · Continuous

ANYmal and the learned-locomotion line that reset expectations for legged robots.