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Tiny Robots, Big Impact: D-ITET Team Earns IEEE Access Video Grand Prize
IEEE Access honours a team of D-ITET researchers for their outstanding video on collaborative mapping for robot swarms.
Project CRATER: ETH students are working on an autonomous Mars rover
With the CRATER project, around 70 ETH students are developing the university's first autonomous rover. Supported by the Center for Project-Based Learning at D-ITET, the team is preparing for one of the most important international rover competitions.
Your friend and helper
From a mechanical guide dog to a self-learning exoskeleton and magnetically controlled bacteria, researchers at ETH Zurich are busy devising robots for medical applications.
PD Dr. Michele Magno achieves IEEE Fellow Status
Effective 1 January 2026, PD Dr. Michele Magno, Head of the Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) and Senior Lecturer at D-ITET, has been named an IEEE Fellow by the IEEE Board of Directors. The Board honours his “contributions to low-power wake-up radios and energy harvesting for smart sensors”.
Outstanding Lecture Award for PBL at IEEE Sensors Conference
The Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) has received the outstanding lecture award at the IEEE Sensors Conference in Vancouver. First author is Pietro Bonazzi, doctoral student in the PBL headed by PD Dr. Michele Magno.
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Revisiting RowHammer awarded “Top Picks”
The paper “Revisiting RowHammer” by Prof. Onur Mutlu’s SAFARI Research Group was awarded the “Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security”.
Max Weber, Niklas Weiler, and Dario Stocco receive “Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award”
At the first departmental conference of 2026, the “Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award” for the Fall Semester 2025 was presented to the best assistants.
Verena Häberle and Giacomo Torti win Hans-Eggenberger-Award 2025
Dr. Verena Häberle and Giacomo Torti have received the prestigious Hans-Eggenberger-Award 2025. The researchers from the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering were recognised for their outstanding theses on future power systems and plasmonic modulators.