Robotics events in Switzerland

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Curated calendar of the best AI, robotics, deep tech and startup events in Switzerland and the DACH region for 2026. Filter by topic, city and month.

Momentum: Robotics & Embodied AI in Zurich

by Nebius for Startups

Hosted by Nebius, Balderton Capital, NVIDIA September 17, 2026 · Zurich Robotics is moving out of the lab and into the real world. Join Nebius, Balderton and NVIDIA in Zurich for Momentum, an evening bringing together the founders, researchers, engineers, investors, and industry leaders building the next generation of robotics and embodied AI. Zurich sits at the heart of one of Europe’s most excit

Humanoid Robotics World Championship

by Humanoid Robotics Association Switzerland

A global competition bringing together top university and corporate teams to compete in complex humanoid robot challenges, including dexterity, locomotion, and human-robot interaction tasks.

Agentic AI in Health: From Decentralized Data Ledgers to Lab-in-the-Loop Discovery

by Mathieu Chaffard

The RoX Health team is inviting you in Zürich for an interactive, high-signal evening exploring how agentic AI and frontier models are reshaping both ends of the healthcare value chain—from lab-in-the-loop drug discovery to health data analytics and research. Expect live interaction, technical debates, and hands-on workflow breakdowns alongside fellow builders in the space! What We Will Cover Next

Robot Learning Paper Club

by Dominique Paul

Robot learning in Zurich is scattered. Academia, big tech, and startups are all pushing the field forward, but rarely in the same room. If Zurich is going to lead in robotics globally, the people building it need to talk to each other. This is a space for exactly that. We mix 10-minute presentations from researchers in the local community presenting their own work and participants presenting recen

DARE Campus @ Zurich AI Festival 2026

by DARE Campus (FlexOffice AG)

An open evening at DARE Campus, The JED in Zurich-Schlieren, where robotics and applied AI are shown up close through live demos, short founder insights and informal exchange. Part of the Zurich AI Festival 2026, it brings researchers, founders, companies, students and the wider public together.

AI Meets Reality: From Algorithms to Autonomous Systems

by Zurich AI Festival

Physical AI is leaving the lab - what does it take to make it work in the real world? “AI Meets Reality – Testing the Future of Autonomous Systems” explores the journey from prototype to deployment, highlighting the critical role of testing, validation and collaboration in bringing safe and trustworthy autonomous systems into everyday life. Hosted by LINA, a joint initiative of ZHAW, UZH, ZHdK and

Building Robots in Europe – Regulation, Risk & Market Access

by Zurich AI Festival

LEXR unpacks what it actually takes to bring a robot to market in Europe — CE marking, the new Machinery Regulation, AI Act compliance, and cross-border market access. A sharp, practitioner-led session for any hardware or robotics founder navigating EU regulatory terrain.

BuilderBase Physical AI Hackathon — Swiss AI Weeks

by BuilderBase

A one-day Physical AI hackathon on a robotics campus in Zurich: twelve hours, two tracks, real hardware in the building. Eighty builders get one day at DARE Campus in Schlieren to make something that perceives its environment, decides what to do and does it, then demo it live to the people who do this for a living. DARE is a deep tech and robotics campus, not a conference room. Tethys Robotics builds underwater inspection drones there and FORGIS runs AI agents on factory equipment; their engineers are the mentors and the judges, and the maker space is down the hall. Two tracks run in parallel: Hardware puts teams on real robots, sensors and actuators, while Simulation needs nothing but a laptop and is judged on exactly the same rubric. Doors and check-in at 09:00, opening and team formation at 09:45, build from 10:30, tools down at 16:30, four-minute live demos and judging from 17:00, winners and drinks at 19:30. Teams are two to four people and most participants arrive alone. Free to attend, part of Swiss AI Weeks.

Physical AI Hackathon — DARE Campus Zurich

by An ecosystem that fills every seat

**Build something that moves.** A one-day Physical AI hackathon on a robotics campus in Zurich. Twelve hours, two tracks, real hardware in the building. Perceive, decide, act, then show it working.

Bringing Autonomy to Software Engineering

by Anna Andersson

'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more. For this one, we’re joined by Dmytro Yaroshenko (Applied AI Solutions) from Factory to talk abou

Sustainability Robotics in Action

by Zurich AI Festival

The Competence Centre for Sustainability Robotics opens its doors to showcase its Physical AI-powered robotic systems, including interactive displays of its award-winning builder drone and other cutting-edge technologies. +++ This event is part of the Zurich AI Festival, taking place from September 28 to October 3, 2026. Zurich AI Festival unites the minds building the future - visionary founders,

ETH Hangar: Behind the Scenes of Innovation - English Tour

by Zurich AI Festival

Step inside ETH Hangar at Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich, housed in a renovated historic airfield hangar in Dübendorf. This unique mission hub is where academia meets industry — student teams develop electric aircraft, autonomous race cars, and space technologies. Discover how ETH spin-offs and industry leaders collaborate, and how programs give companies fast, low-barrier access to research a

Evaluation im Autonomous Enterprise

by inpeek AG

Wir laden am **29.9.2026** **um 17.30 Uhr** ganz herzlich zu uns in den **Postparc **(Bogenschützenstrasse 9, 3008 Bern) ein zur Session "**Vertrauen ist gut, Metriken sind besser – Evaluation im Autonomous Enterprise”**. Wie gut arbeitet eine KI-Anwendung wirklich, und was passiert, wenn KI-Agenten ganze Prozesse übernehmen? Diesen beiden Fragen gehen wir an diesem Abend nach. In zwei kurzen und

Gravis Robotics x Foxglove: Zurich Robotics Night

by Raphael Levy

Join us in Zurich for an evening built for the local robotics and physical AI community. Gravis Robotics and Foxglove are teaming up to get the local robotics crowd in one room for real technical content and good conversation. Gravis will take the stage on rebuilding a robot's nervous system — moving beyond ROS2 toward a scalable, safety-certifiable open-source stack, while keeping the machine ope

DARE Campus Robot Showcase & Community Night

by DARE Campus

An open evening where visitors can experience robotics and applied AI up close through live demos, short founder insights and informal exchange, bringing researchers, founders, companies, students and the wider public together.

Swiss Robotics Day 2026

by ETH RobotX & Swiss Robotics Association

SWISS ROBOTICS DAY 2026 13 November 2026 • StageOne Event & Convention Center • Zurich Register here 17 years at the forefront of the Swiss robotics exhibitions & networking scene https://swissroboticsday.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SRD24.mp4A national meeting point for robotics A platform uniting academia, industry, policymakers, and innovators. Organized by ETH Zurich RobotX with the valuable

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