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Artificial Intelligence

The Asinov School in Renens, canton of Vaud, will welcome its first cohort on 18 January 2027. The 12-month program trains professionals to deploy and manage AI-powered humanoid robots, and ends with a week of immersion in Shanghai.

Asinov School opens in Renens to train professionals to work with humanoid robots

13 October 2026

The canton of Fribourg and the Banque Cantonale de Fribourg (BCF) have unveiled the nine finalists of the 18th IFF (Innovation Fribourg Freiburg) Awards, selected from 40 applications across three categories.

Fribourg unveils the nine finalists for the 2026-2027 IFF Awards

12 October 2026

Lausanne-based Neural Concept, an EPFL spin-off specializing in AI-driven engineering, has opened its first dedicated commercial presence in India to support manufacturers already using its platform, including MAHLE.

Neural Concept establishes its first direct presence in India

5 October 2026

Trust Valley has unveiled the cohort for the eighth edition of its Tech4Trust accelerator: 30 start-ups from 11 countries, including 15 from Switzerland, working to make AI secure, governed and sovereign.

Tech4Trust selects 30 start-ups to secure artificial intelligence

5 October 2026

Embodied AI, a Lausanne-based start-up founded by EPFL-trained roboticists, has launched with a first financing round led by Faber VC to develop intelligent robots designed to work alongside humans in industrial environments.

Embodied AI launches with international investor backing to automate European production lines

22 September 2026

Proton and the research team behind Apertus, the fully open language model developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich and partner institutions, are partnering to advance open and sovereign AI in Switzerland and Europe.

Proton integrates the Swiss language model Apertus into its AI assistant Lumo

22 September 2026

Lausanne-based Giotto.ai and Groupe Mutuel, which serves more than 1.3 million clients, have begun a collaboration to deploy the Giotto AI model across selected use cases, with sensitive data remaining within the insurer's own environment.

Groupe Mutuel partners with Giotto.ai to deploy sovereign AI on its own infrastructure

22 September 2026

The Empa campus in Thun has split its Advanced Materials Processing laboratory into two independent units dedicated to surfaces and interfaces on one side and to metallic materials and manufacturing on the other, as researchers on the site make computational tools for alloy design accessible through a conversational AI agent.

Empa in Thun splits into two labs for materials and metals

7 September 2026

The Foundation for Innovation and Technology has awarded five Tech Grants of CHF 100,000 each to projects from the canton of Vaud: three FIT-InnoTREK grants to Chorus Tre, HeteroSight and SixtineAI, all arising from the CHUV, and two FIT-Innogrant grants to Cookd Labs and Endobotica, both from EPFL.

FIT awards five Tech Grants to projects from the CHUV and EPFL

7 September 2026

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Top Stories from Western Switzerland (August 2026)

31 August 2026

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