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UAE Swiss Research Day

Published:22.06.11 — Over the next two days the first UAE-Swiss Research Day will take place at the EPFL campus in Lausanne. Organized by EPFL Middle East, researchers from Switzerland and UAE will converge on the subject of the future Energy and Sustainability.

Red Light, Green Light - Automated Driving Takes The Wheel

Published:21.06.11 — Today, at the HAVEit Final Event, 17 partners from the European automotive industry and scientific community, including EPFL, are set to demonstrate the highly automated future of driving. The EU funded project aims at increasing driving safety, improving efficiency and boosting the European automotive industry in the international market.

Augmented reality in an iPhone app

Published:20.06.11 — Imagine you’re in a museum, and you can point your iPhone camera to a painting or an object in an exhibit and instantly get additional information about what you’re looking at. This is what PixLive, an iPhone app developed by the start-up company Vidinoti, lets you do – enrich an image with text, video, and other multimedia content.

Europe looks into helicopter commuting

Published:17.06.11 — A European research program is studying the feasibility of a new kind of individual transport that avoids traffic jams by taking to the skies. Two laboratories at EPFL participate in this project.

High-precision robots available in kit form

Published:17.06.11 — A doctoral student from EPFL’s Laboratory of Robotics Systems has developed a concept for modular industrial robots, based on the technology of parallel robots, whose precision is expressed in nanometers.

Volker Gass, the new Space Center director

Published:15.06.11 — By appointing Volker Gass to take over the leadership of its Space Center, EPFL is positioning itself among the leaders in the Swiss space science landscape. Our country has the expertise and experience to play a leading role in Europe and abroad. An interview with the man of the moment.

An invitation to travel – on the iPad

Published:14.06.11 — Aelios is an application that was developed as an EPFL Bachelor’s project. Two weeks after its launch, it topped download charts in Switzerland and Germany.