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Tommaso Polonelli, Andrea Bentivogli, Guido Comai, and Michele Magno from the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) won the Best Poster Award for the paper "Self-sustainable IoT Wireless Sensor Node for Predictive Maintenance on Electric Motors" at the IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium 2022 in Sweden.  

But AI is still a long way from having its own feelings and consciousness, say experts like Benjamin Grewe, professor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at ETH Zurich and UZH.

ForzaETH, a team of students from the Center of Project-Based Learning at D-ITET (PBL) and the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI) at ETH Zurich and UZH competed at two F1TENTH autonomous racing challenges and finished first place at the Germany 2022 grand prix. F1TENTH is a 1:10 scaled autonomous racing competition, where teams from all over the world aim to develop the fastest robotic racecar on the track.

Three D-ITET graduates have been awarded an ETH Zürich Pioneer Fellowships for their groundbreaking technology innovations for the industry. PeakFlow, developed by Yvan Bosshard and Tiago Salzmann, brings "the Smart to Smart Infrastructure" and is capable of completely self-​sustaining operation. Tethys Robotics, co-founded by Pragash Sivananthaguru, enables search, recovery and inspection missions in all waters.

Together with ewz and the Center for Project-Based Learning at D-ITET (PBL), the Civil Engineering Office of the City of Zurich is testing newly developed sensors on Vulkanplatz and Münsterhof. They should provide information about how the chairs on the squares are used. If the sensors prove themselves, they could be used in the future for planning public spaces.