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EPFL researchers have built a drone that can walk, hop, and jump into flight with the aid of birdlike legs, greatly expanding the range of potential environments accessible to unmanned aerial vehicles.

EPFL research investigating the potential impact on education of AI assistants has found that systems like GPT-4 can answer up to 85% of university assessment questions correctly.

EPFL’s new Kuma supercomputer, which ranks 23rd in the Green500 ranking, illustrates EPFL’s efforts to support cutting-edge research with a low environmental impact. With Kuma, EPFL is helping anchor Switzerland’s position at the forefront of sustainable computing.

IC Assistant Professor Maria Brbić, has been awarded SNSF Starting Grants for her innovative research project tackling a critical scientific and societal challenge.

Scientists at EPFL have advanced their NeuroMechFly model, simulating fruit fly movement in the real world. With integrated vision and smell, it helps us understand brain-body coordination, setting a path for neuroengineering’s role in robotics and AI.

EPFL researchers have combined virtual reality, non-invasive brain stimulation and advanced brain imaging techniques to improve spatial navigation in healthy participants. The study is a first step in addressing dementia in an aging population without medication or surgery.

In the future, buildings will provide enhanced, more personalized comfort to occupants while also achieving zero carbon emissions. This will be possible thanks to advances in sensors and AI, enabling new ways of interacting with our environments while leaving ultimate control in occupants’ hands. Yet, as users, we’ll also need to make lasting changes to our habits.

The EPFL AI Center has launched a new Postdoctoral Fellowship programme to give outstanding and highly motivated young researchers the chance to collaborate with a broad range of EPFL faculty on furthering the capabilities and applications of AI techniques in a variety of scientific domains. The call is now open. Join the AI Center in shaping the future of AI research!

During its Presidency of the United Nations Security Council in October, the Swiss Confederation and EPFL, in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), are presenting Deepfake and You, an exhibition which will run at the UN Headquarters from 15 to 25 October.

EPFL professor Philippe Schwaller has been awarded the prestigious Hansch Award 2024 for his significant contributions to the field of chemoinformatics and quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR).