Innovation
La Liberte : EPFL: un robot entièrement activé par vide d'air
08.09.17 —
Reconfigurable Robotics Lab
EPFL: un robot entièrement activé par vide d'air
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SBER contributions to a Perspective paper in PNAS
08.09.17 —
Stream Biofilm and Ecosystem Research Laboratory
SBER contributions to a Perspective paper in PNAS on glacier shrinkage and downstream consequences. For more detail, follow that link http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/08/31/1619807114.abstract
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Innovation
SCIENCE Magazine : Snakebot picks up objects and climbs walls
08.09.17 —
Reconfigurable Robotics Lab
SCIENCE Magazine : Snakebot picks up objects and climbs walls
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Apety – the app that makes eating out a piece of cake
08.09.17 —
Mediacom
Students from EPFL and HEC have just launched an app that streamlines how you organize a meal out with friends. In just a few taps, customers can choose their meal, invite friends and pay their share of the bill. Around 40 Geneva restaurants are already giving the app a go, as well as 10 Lausanne restaurants.
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Innovation
Six EPFL startups are among the Swiss top 10
07.09.17 —
Mediacom
L.E.S.S. and Flyability – two EPFL startups – are among the podium finishers in the latest TOP 100 Swiss Startups ranking, which was announced yesterday evening in Zurich. Four other EPFL companies also made the top ten.
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An interview with Pavan Ramdya
07.09.17 —
SV | Life Sciences
Professor Pavan Ramdya recently joined EPFL’s School of Life Sciences, where he directs the Neuroengineering Laboratory. As part of both the Brain Mind (BMI) and the Bioengineering (IBI) institutes, he studies the insect Drosophila melanogaster to identify the neurogenetic mechanisms that drive behavioral diversity across individuals and species, and to understand how neural circuits can be genetically engineered to synthesize new behaviors.
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Research
New microscopy method offers one-shot 3D imaging of nanostructures
07.09.17 —
Mediacom
EPFL scientists have developed a scanning transmission electron microscopy method that can quickly and efficiently generate 3D representations of curvilinear nanostructures.
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Research
Detecting animals in African Savanna with UAVs and the crowds
06.09.17 —
Geographic Information Systems Laboratory
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer new opportunities for wildlife monitoring, with several advantages over traditional field-based methods.
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Research
IDEAS Lunch | 13 September 2017
06.09.17 —
Integrated Design Architecture and Sustainability
The next IDEAS LUNCH will take place on Wednesday 13 September 2017 at 12:30 in the IDEAS space (LE 0 10).
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Research
Particle physicists on a quest for “new physics”
06.09.17 —
Mediacom
EPFL’s physicists are moving forward in their efforts to solve the mysteries of the universe. A particle detector made up of 10,000 kilometers of scintillating fiber is under construction and will be added onto CERN's particle accelerator.
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