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Projects

3D Printer Kit
The Project 3D Printer Kit aims to provide Makerspace users with an instruction manual for constructing a 3D printer using materials available at SPH Makerspace. The manual will detail the specific SPH machines and tools required for the assembly. Additionally, it will guide users on how to acquire components not stocked in the Makerspace shop, such as extruders and electronic boards. This project aims to offer ETH students a platform for learning about and delving into 3D printer design....
Alter Ego
While buying clothes online, most customers are uncertain about the size that would fit them. Hence, 30% of the ordered articles are returned and handling these operations costs up to 50% of a company’s revenue. Half of these returns are reported to be due to size fitting issues and most of the articles are damaged during the process and then burned. Alter Ego provides a tool that will allow shoppers to have a real fitting room experience on their smartphones. Check out the Video: Users will have to download a few body pictures on our application which will create their Avatar: a 3D representation oftheir bodies with precise measurements. Users will then be able to use their “Alter Ego'' on shopping platforms, get sizerecommendations and even try the outfits on their avatars. This process will drastically reduce online returns, retailerswill be willing to pay a license to use the avatars and our system on their platform. ...
Antelope
Join Antelope, where we are redefining human biomechanics, transforming bodies into precision-tuned data engines at a fraction of the cost.Our breakthrough technology, ten times cheaper and more effective than existing solutions, harnesses the power of wearable sensors to predict muscle force — accurately and non-invasively. Discover how our innovative research is not only meeting but surpassing the current challenges, propelling the future of biomechanical assessments into uncharted territories.With Antelope, experience the forefront of biomechanics innovation!...
AtlasVR AG
AtlasVR AG was founded in the end of 2021 by Joy, Valentin and Christian, three PhD students at the Innovation Center Virtual Reality. Our vision is to revolutionize vocational training procedures by harnessing the immense socioeconomic potential of Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Our VR training solutions enable active learning with an intuitive learning-by-doing approach, saving substantial costs compared to real world training, while increasing trainee motivation and engagement. We entirely focus on a B2B model, specifically in the Swiss MEM industries as our target customers. With our end-to-end offering, we accompany our customers from initial contact with the technology via implementation to on-site roll-out with options for service maintenance long after development. We are currently implementing and refining our pilot projects and demonstrators and work with our first customers on their individualized training solutions....
Beamä
Beamä is a plug-and-play payment layer that enables Swiss e-commerce and physical merchants to accept instant bank payments via the existing national infrastructure. By providing a seamless Stripe-like integration for the new instant settlement standard, the platform bypasses legacy card networks to offer real-time transaction finality. It effectively serves as a modern, developer-centric alternative for merchants seeking the speed of Twint with the global integration standards of modern fintech....
Bloom Lab
We’re Lucie and Blanche, fascinated by the complexity of nature and driven to explore how interdisciplinary science can decode biology and inspire new ways of thinking. We met at EPFL, collaborating on coding projects and a startup, and discovered the thrill of building ambitious ideas together. At Harvard and MIT, we developed our first polymath project on aging and biological relativity, and back in Europe we founded Bloom Lab, reimagining how science can be done. So far, we’ve launched our social media presence on X and Instagram, published our first blog post on Substack, and planned a 3-day research hackathon at the SPH. Our main goal is to build a strong community of polymaths, empowering curiosity through events that bring together professors, industry leaders, and students from different fields to think deeply about life’s most important questions....
BrickMachine
Unsere Vision ist es, den Klemmbausteinmarkt nachhaltiger und effizienter zu gestalten. Weltweit existieren über 1 Billion LEGO-Steine, von denen viele ungenutzt bleiben, da manuelles Sortieren zeit- und kostenintensiv ist. Nach über drei Jahren Entwicklungszeit haben wir einen vollfunktionsfähigen Prototyp einer automatisierten LEGO-Sortiermaschine entwickelt und erfolgreich getestet. Wir bieten nun unseren Service sowohl im B2C-Bereich für private LEGO-Sammlungen als auch im B2B-Umfeld für Händler, Wiederverkäufer und Organisationen an. Das Projekt begann während unseres letzten Schuljahres, als wir LEGO-Steine von Hand sortierten und weiterverkauften, um unser Taschengeld aufzubessern. Dadurch mussten wir schnell feststellen wie nervig und zeitaufwändig die Sortierung von gebrauchten Steinen wirklich ist....
CFAO3D
Our vision is to make dental care safer and more transparent by empowering dentists to meet regulatory standards effortlessly while prioritizing patient care and ensuring complete transparency in treatment. CFAO3D offers a cloud-based solution that streamlines dental implant and prostheses traceability, easing the process for dental professionals to meet regulatory standards. Our traceability system provides patients with clear treatment details, improving safety and transparency. Our story began with the challenge our father faced in managing dental implant and prosthetics traceability, a new process surgeons are not trained for. To address this, we created a simple Excel prototype that quickly evolved into a web app and, eventually, a cloud-based solution available to all dentists. Today, we collaborate with implant manufacturers to further streamline traceability, ensuring seamless integration and improved patient care. ...
Cosmo
Cosmo is a social media app that revolves around saving your favorite locations - bars, restaurants, working spots etc. - and sharing these with your friends. Whether you don’t know where to invite your date for dinner or in a new city and don’t know where to go, Cosmo makes it easy to access your friends’ or favorite influencers’ curated recommendations. Recommendations are the most trusted marketing channel for leisure services / cultural institutions - and simultaneously, you can spread your good taste and document your favorite moments in the places you’re discovered....
DIGIT SOIL
Digit Soil is a team of experts in soil science, biotechnology, agronomy, and software engineering that aims to revolutionize agriculture and regenerate soils. We believe that farmers need accurate and directly interpretable information to farm sustainably, starting with an indication of the optimal amount, type, and timing of fertilizer application to improve their efficiency and foster the use of organic fertilizer. At Digit Soil, we have developed a technology that provides farmers with the information they need to optimize the use of both synthetic and organic fertilizers. Our device measures soil enzymatic activity, the biochemical process responsible for releasing nutrients to plants in the soil. By combining this data with current agronomic models and deep-learning approaches, we can provide farmers with the optimal timing, amount, and composition of fertilizer to increase nutrient uptake by crops, leading to a more sustainable and productive farming system....
Engineers for Science
Engineers for Science is an initiative around promoting software engineering best practices in research. We believe that great science requires great software. Unfortunately, many researchers struggle to write effective code, leading to poor software quality, slowing down scientific progress. That's where we come in. We connect researchers with experienced software engineers from the industry who can provide valuable feedback and guidance on best practices for software development. You can learn about some of these principles in our blog. By partnering with Engineers for Science, researchers can ensure that their software is a robust tool for their research and not a hindrance, enabling them to focus on their scientific discoveries. But it's not just about helping researchers. Our initiative also benefits software engineers who are looking to gain experience in mentorship and leadership. By working with researchers, the engineers can gain valuable insights into the latest scientific discoveries and can apply their skills in new and exciting ways. Join Engineers for Science today and help us bridge the gap between science and software engineering. Together, we can create better software and drive scientific progress forward....
Floatz
floatz helps researchers find the most relevant and accurate science through novel AI architectures. 2 million scientific articles are published every year and, to make things worse, the disruptiveness of these articles has dropped by 90% over the last 50 years. How can a researcher find innovation in so much redundant information? The consequence is that researchers spend one year, on average, to write a successful project proposal that unlocks fundings. Practically, a researcher receives hundreds of articles every day from journals, newsletters etc. Most of it is irrelevant and they end up, after many hours, picking what seems useful while looking for novelty or impact. floatz provides a familiar and streamlined user experience. Researchers prompt for what they need and floatz uses AI to deliver relevant science and display it in a way that is easiest to digest. It combines the relevance capabilities of ChatGPT with the precision of scientific search engines like Google Scholar....
Generai
We at Generai are building machine learning algorithms to generate art with AI, purely from text! Use Generai to create beautiful artworks to your liking, to serve as an inspiration or to introduce people to the wonderful world of AI art. Our vision is to be pioneers in the field of generative art while simultaneously enabling you to experience the power of cutting-edge research and use it to your needs. We are a team of four master students in Computer Science with backgrounds in business, machine learning and software engineering. We met back when we started our studies back in 2017, and already have experience working together on other projects. Emerging from a personal project on generative art, Generai was born early June 2022. Visit us on our website, where your personal AI artist will soon be ready to take your orders!...
House Of Charts
House of Charts revolutionizes hospital workflows by using advanced AI to automate clinical documentation, allowing medical staff to focus on patient care. Their privacy-preserving technology generates discharge reports, medical coding, and other essential documents, seamlessly integrating with existing systems to enhance efficiency across all specialties. ...
infinity.swiss
Most small businesses still run their accounting on PDFs, spreadsheets, and manual work. We’re building Infinity, the first AI-native ERP that automates this entire workflow. Infinity already powers hundreds of businesses and processes over 100'000 transactions annually. Our goal is to become the AI platform every small business runs on. Infinity began as a project between friends from the countryside of Zürich, when we realised how unnecessarily complicated starting and running a business still is. That moment sparked our mission to give makers the freedom to build by making entrepreneurship in Switzerland accessible to anyone....
Irmos (ex-SeismoHealth)
Maximizing the safe life of bridges and buildings based on data Irmos'software translates vibrations of buildings and bridges due to wind or traffic into structural health metrics for a safer and more sustainable infrastructure. Based on a limited number of low-cost sensors that they developed, the software tracks key damage indicators and supports the decision making for optimial maintenance planning. Their solution attracted key infrastructure owners and top engineeing offices, counting already multiple pilot projects, including an 8-year monitoring contract with the Swiss federal office for the road network (ASTRA). The founders count 4 PhD and 6 MSc degrees in civil engineering, structural health monitoring, data science and robotics and the team is growing from 4 to 8 until the end of 2023....
ItsNotAI
ItsNotAI develops AI detection models and issues labels to distinguish non-AI media. We help data curators to filter out AI generated content for better models training as well as private customers as a tool for more transparency. The idea started after a talk with some photographer friends about how AI generated media is replacing original creative work on certain online platforms. The service is live. You're welcome to try it out on our website....
JobStep.io
The goal is to make the job search easy for everyone. From finding jobs, to creating good application documents and interview assistant. We started in October 2025 and in January 2026 already have more than 2.5k paying customers. We previously built an AI headshot generator called Realfakephotos which by now has more than 250k users. Here we realised that users also struggle with a good resume. So we decided to build JobStep.io....
KAJA AI
An autonomous Sales agent that accesses the world's largest dataset of Swiss companies to automatically draft highly personalized outreach emails for your Sales campaigns. We are currently running paid pilots with initial clients to validate our technology and market fit. Our main goal is to scale our data infrastructure to soon cover the entire DACH region and revolutionize B2B sales. We are 3 friends studying Computer Science together at ETH Zurich. We came together to combine our technical skills and build an autonomous agent that automates Sales....
Lumia
Revolutionizing Fair Hiring: Introducing AI-Powered Solution by Lumia! 🚀 Our cutting-edge platform empowers recruiters to make equitable decisions, by becoming aware of and overcoming unconscious biases that affect the hiring process. This is done through Lumia's Fairness Engine which is our one-of-a-kind model that is built on principles of fairness and is able to analyzes past hiring decisions to identify potential biases based on gender, age, race, and more. 📊 Boost diversity and attract top talent with our certification of inclusivity. Join us in shaping a future where every candidate is evaluated fairly. Learn more at our website....
Lumova
Since July 2025, we talked to over 20 care home staff to understand their needs, built our first prototype in August and ran 8 demos in September. After improving the system in October, we now offer weekly movement sessions in three care homes until the end of 2025. Our goal is to make exercise fun, easy to use, and possible without staff support. Next, we plan to involve students as session leaders and later create a version that residents can use more independently. I, Aurel Berger, am a Movement Scientist from ETH Zurich and was inspired by my own grandparents’ struggles with mobility loss and rehabilitation. Seeing how quickly my once-sportive grandfather lost his independence in a care home motivated me to create a more engaging way to stay active. I met my co-founder Tumen Dambiev, a Data Scientist, through the Talent Kick program, where we connected over our shared mission to improve the quality of life of older adults. ...
Manukai
Currently, more than 30% of total manufacturing costs and 50% of a worker’s time are devoted to translating designers’ plans into CNC machine code. At MANUKAI, our mission is to bridge the gap between design and production. To achieve this, we’re creating an intelligent assistant that simplifies the development process within Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) programs. Our system learns from CAM programmers’ preferences, streamlining programming efforts with suggestions. Additionally, our software actively oversees the programming process, continuously optimizing programs to reduce machine manufacturing time and enhance overall quality....
MoonAI
At MoonAI we believe that the future of VC is decentralised and AI-augmented. We’re building tools to enable this. Our first product is an AI-enabled CRM for VCs to find deals, analyse them and win them. Our product helps you understand your investment hypotheses by finding entrepreneurial talent in the space, identifying key research and searching the internet for related startups. Our next feature will help VCs build decentralised scout networks to find startups before they’re incorporated....
neuroo
We develop software tools for schools, universities and educational institutions. Our focus lies on supporting teachers in their work by automating processes like exercise generation, exam correction and evaluation of performances. We give students feedback on their understanding and knowledge retention. We are three software engineers who are passionate about making leaning more effective and efficient. Through neuroo, we would like to make a positive contribution to the world of education....
NeuroPrune
At NeuroPrune, we are inspired by the biological process of neural pruning. In the realm of artificial intelligence, we believe the path to advancement isn't solely through expansion or smarter chatbots but through strategic enhancement and, sometimes, necessary reduction. Our mission is to mature neural networks. This philosophy led us to our initial concept of machine unlearning, introducing anonymity as a service — the idea designed to enable neural networks to forget, thereby protecting user privacy by erasing sensitive data like leaked passwords or personal information. However, our journey didn't stop there. We pivoted towards an underrated yet profoundly impactful area: facilitating conversations between chatbots. Imagine a digital offshoring realm where chatbots, each with unique roles and expertise, communicate with each other to solve problems more efficiently than a single, more advanced AI could. Or instead of having to ask the chatbot multiple times until it returns the answer you want, let another chatbot do that work for you. This approach not only has great use cases, but also makes us think about AI shortcomings, such as bias and hallucinations. Communication and the freedom to structure conversations gives us the framework to counteract those....
nunu.ai
nunu.ai is pioneering the frontier of artificial intelligence in gaming with the creation of the first multi-modal AI agents specifically designed to test and play any game. Our mission is to revolutionize the game experience and development process by integrating advanced AI from the initial stages of Quality Assurance (QA) to the complexities of live player simulation and cooperation. We aim to create agents that augment player experiences in virtual worlds. Our commitment is to elevate the gaming industry to new heights, ensuring richer, more immersive, and flawlessly crafted virtual experiences. We want to lay the stepping stones towards AGI in games. ...
Optiverse
Pioneering the Future of Professional Video Interaction Dive into the world of Optiverse, where we harness the power of AI to revolutionize how professionals engage with video content. A haven for executives and organizations, our software is the cornerstone of productivity and insightful learning. At Optiverse, our mission is simple yet ambitious – to transform the overwhelming influx of video information into concise and actionable insights. Our cutting-edge platform reimagines lengthy videos into custom, engaging summaries, saving precious time and boosting productivity. But our innovation doesn't stop at summarization. We empower companies with a comprehensive ecosystem tailored for video knowledge management, equipped with the unique ability to rebuild videos to cater to specific viewer requirements. Proudly standing as the only platform offering video-to-video summarization solely focused on productivity, Optiverse introduces an unparalleled advantage in the market. Our user-friendly interface prioritizes efficiency, ensuring that every second of video content holds significant value without compromising on the essentials. Join us on this ambitious journey to redefine professional video consumption and shape the future of information accessibility. Optiverse – Where every frame counts....
P2P Industries
Operating swarms of robots in a simple and out-of-the-box way. P2P Industries enables resilient connection, high-bandwidth communication, and abstracted control.We have built networking software that will be open sourced for academia and sold to enterprises.We have secured funding and started refining the networking software to the needs of roboticists. The goal is to be the number one networking extension for robots.The project grew out of a hackathon, more than one year ago. It morphed into an IoT company, and after countless hours in SPH of building our software and an automatic plant care demo, we have started to use the stack for robots.The team has known each other for over 3 years in CS studies....
Qcomply
So far, we’ve built an early MVP that automatically scans systems to find where cryptography is used and flags what isn’t ready for a post-quantum world.Our main goal is to make cryptographic discovery and quantum-safe migration simple enough that any security team can handle it without deep crypto expertise.We’re now working with several organisations to run early pilots and refine the product. In the long run, we want to become the easiest way for companies to stay quantum-safe. The project started when we realised that most companies have no clear overview of their cryptographic assets, even though upcoming regulations will soon require it.We teamed up to build a tool that removes the manual pain and makes quantum readiness actually achievable for real organisations....
Rimon Technologies
Industrial companies are facing a growing challenge: critical expert knowledge is retiring faster than it can be transferred to the next generation. This leads to longer downtimes, inefficient processes, and an increasing reliance on a shrinking pool of experienced technicians.Rimon addresses this problem with Digital Walter, an AI-powered knowledge management platform that captures, structures, and makes industrial expertise easily accessible. Through video-based capturing, and smart search, frontline workers can retrieve crucial guidance exactly when they need it—without relying on just a single expert.With 20 years of expertise digitized in just one week, Rimon helps industrial companies reduce costly downtime and ensure operational continuity.Based in Zurich and an ETH spin-off, Rimon is working with leading industrial companies to future-proof their operations and prevent knowledge loss before it happens....
Ryven
Ryven is a visual nodes editor for Python. It provides a framework for building nodes executing any Python code. It enables using the more diagram-like, data-flow inspired structure to represent data processing-centric functionality. The Ryven editor is a cross-platform desktop application that is primarily intended to explore use-cases, and it has led to substantial integration of the flow paradigm in several external projects by now. This is a non-commercial open-source software project hosted on GitHub....
spAIce
Enabling in-orbit services at scale with native AI in space With the increasing frequency of satellite launches and impending space debris regulations, SPAICE is meeting the need for effective in-space servicing. Our solutions can enhance satellite lifespans by 50%, boost their revenue generation by 50%, and reduce collision risks by 20%. Traditional methods, limited by manual imprecise terrestrial controls, are inaccessible to 90% of the satellite market due to their prohibitive costs. SPAICE pioneered leveraging Generative AI and Deep Reinforcement Learning to develop the first fully autonomous solution for In-Orbit Services (IOS). Our proprietary software tools (under patent filing) enable seamless navigation and multitasking robotic services and integrate with existing satellite systems to improve their capabilities. Our software is delivered through a plug-and-play servicing platform including sensors, robot arms, and a computing unit. As a modular payload, our platform is ready to be integrated into any existing satellite, transforming it into a functional in-orbit servicer. Our positioning is centered around being a technological enabler, providing the missing piece to allow IOS to be applied at scale. Our team has developed the world's largest photorealistic dataset of orbiting assets, comprising over 1 million images. By learning to optimize universal reward functions, SPAICE's technology excels in understanding perception features and control policies from data patterns, directly through interaction with the environment. This innovation is scalable across multiple use cases and adaptable to varying targets and mission requirements, overcoming the main limitation of current IOS prototypes, whose design is tied to a particular target satellite and mission, thus being unscalable. Founded by a top-tier team from prestigious institutions including Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, and Oxford, SPAICE is at the forefront of space technology. We're currently validating our solutions through Proof of Concepts (PoCs) with leading European space entities and have an exciting lineup of projects in our pipeline....
Stack Auth
Stack Auth (YC S24) is the open-source Auth0 alternative. We build your login and signup pages, and everything that comes with that. We are the most developer-friendly auth solution. Setting up Stack takes just five minutes; after that, you will immediately be able to use our features such as two-factor authentication, social logins/OAuth, magic links & passwords, authorization, RBAC, user management, impersonation, webhooks, and more. Our JavaScript packages include ready-to-use React components that let you skip building the frontend pages for account settings, forgot-password flows, and user dashboards. Thanks to this, we have thousands of GitHub stars, and are growing incredibly quickly. Konsti and Zai met while studying computer science at ETH Zurich and incubated this project at SPH. We are repeat founders with work experience at Google and Jane Street, and published papers at top conferences. We are also hiring — if you're passionate about the future of devtools and the web, we should talk. Send us your CV team@stack-auth.com...
SwissGPU
We’ve created a platform where you can rent high-performance bare-metal servers with NVIDIA GPUs for AI training, rendering, gaming, remote work, or simply testing new ideas. Your machine is ready in about 10 minutes, with dedicated hardware delivering low latency and consistent, predictable performance. Billing is hourly, with no contracts or long-term commitments — giving you full flexibility and cost control. Many existing platforms rely on decentralized marketplaces and virtualization layers. In these environments, users often lack full control over the hardware, performance can vary, and the virtualization layer may introduce additional latency for certain workloads. Our approach is based on dedicated bare metal, providing full resource access, consistent performance, and greater transparency....
Unomed
Unomed is #1 for secure medical communication and collaboration. Why #1? you may ask. Well first off, it's in our name. ;) Jokes aside, Unomed is the Swiss all-in-one platform designed to facilitate secure and efficient communication among medical teams, between healthcare providers, and with patients. Under the backdrop of a healthcare system in Switzerland that is notoriously behind in its digitization efforts, Unomed aims to be a key piece of the solution by connecting all stakeholders within the ecosystem and, in a next step, integrating various patient- and professional-facing services. At Unomed, we firmly believe that digitization can only succeed when there is an authentic desire from users to engage with the technology and cannot simply be imposed from above. This is why we consistently follow a user-centered approach, focus on magic moments, and seek win-win solutions for all sides involved. Our ultimate goal? To make the day-to-day work of medical professionals easier, to optimize patient outcomes through more efficient communication, and to provide better data protection, especially when interacting with patients. If our vision resonates with you, we warmly invite you to connect with us. Let's revolutionize healthcare together!...