Our Awards

2024-11-12 | RPG | Cybathlon Jury Award
Cybathlon Jury Award for Sight Guide's assistance system

2024-10-31 | IVDA | SNF Project Grant
SNF Project Grant for Jürgen Bernard and Mennatallah El-Assady

2024-10-09 | IVDA | DSI Infrastructure Award
DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant for Jürgen Bernard and Viktor von Wyl

2024-10-01 | AIML | Best Reviewer Award
Best Reviewer Award to Manuel Günther

2024-08-07 | SEAL | Semester Award
Semester Award for Simon Klaassen

2024-07-31 | Semester Award
Semester Award for Ann-Kathrin Kübler, Hannah Rohe and Joël Inglin

2024-07-23 | HASEL | DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant
DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant for André Meyer, Malte Döhne and Thomas Fritz

2024-07-16 | RPG | Semester Award
Semester Award for Kexin Shi

2024-07-12 | RPG | Elia Kaufmann receives European PhD Award on Systems and Control 2023
Congratulations to our former PhD student Elia Kaufmann for receiving the European PhD Award on Systems and Control 2023 for his contribution to Learning Vision-Based Agile Flight: From Simulation to the Real World!

2024-06-18 | RPG | Elia Kaufmann receives UZH Annual Award for his PhD thesis
Congratulations to our former PhD student Elia Kaufmann for receiving the prestigious Ackeret Award by the Swiss Association of Aeronautical Sciences for his PhD thesis on human-level autonomous drone flight!

2024-06-18 | RPG | Davide Scaramuzza receives IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award 2024
Professor Davide Scaramuzza was honored to receive the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award during the ICRA2024 conference 'for contributions to agile visual navigation of micro drones and low-latency robust perception with event cameras!' Congratulations!

2024-06-11 | IfI | Tarek Alakmeh wins Engagement Award 2024
Tarek Alakmeh gewinnt den Engagement Award 2024

2024-04-27 | RPG | Daniel Gehrig receives UZH Annual Award for his PhD thesis
The University of Zurich Annual Award 2024 goes to our former PhD student Daniel Gehrig for his dissertation "Efficient, Data-Driven Perception with Event Cameras". Congratulations!

2024 | HASEL | DIZH Outreach Grant
André Meyer and his team at UZH and USZ won a DIZH outreach grant for their research project «MindfulPacer».

2024 | HASEL | DIZH Founder Grant
FlowLabs – Better balancing focused work and teamwork

2024 | HASEL | Engagement Award
Tarek Alakmeh gewinnt den Engagement Award 2024

2024 | HASEL | DSI Infrastructure Grant
 

2023-09-28 | RPG | 2023 IEEE/RSJ IROS Best Paper Award
Our work "Autonomous Power Line Inspection with Drones via Perception-Aware MPC" wins the best paper award at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023. Congratulations to all collaborators! Paper, video, code.

2023-09-25 | RPG | 2023 IROS Workshop Robotic Perception and Mapping: Frontier Vision and Learning Techniques
Our work "HDVIO: Improving Localization and Disturbance Estimation with Hybrid Dynamics VIO" wins the best paper award at IROS23 Workshop Robotic Perception and Mapping: Frontier Vision and Learning Techniques. Congratulations to all collaborators! Paper and video.

2023-09-25 | RPG | 2023 IROS Workshop Robotic Perception and Mapping: Frontier Vision and Learning Techniques
Our work in collaboration with ASL, ETH Zurich, "Attending Multiple Visual Tasks for Own Failure Detection" wins the best paper award at IROS23 Workshop Robotic Perception and Mapping: Frontier Vision and Learning Techniques. Congratulations to all collaborators! Paper.

2023-07-28 | RPG | 2023 Frontier of Science Award
Our Science Robotics 2021 paper wins the prestigious Frontier of Science award in the category "Robotics, Science and Systems". Congratulations to Antonio Loquercio and his co-authors! Paper, open-source code, and video.

2023-06-08 | RPG | Manasi Muglikar awarded UZH Candoc Grant
Our PhD student Manasi Muglikar is awarded the UZH Candoc Grant 2023 for her outstanding research. Congratulations!

2023-05-03 | RPG | ICRA Workshop Poster Award
Our PhD student Yunlong Song wins the 2023 ICRA "Agile Movements: Animal Behaviour, Biomechanics, and Robot Devices" workshop poster award with his work "Fly fast with Reinforcement Learning".

2023-04-25 | RPG | CVPR Award Candidate
We are honored that our 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) paper "Data-driven Feature Tracking for Event Cameras" was selected as an award candidate. Congratulations to all collaborators! Check out the paper here.

2023-04-13 | RPG | Asude Aydin wins the UZH Award for her Master Thesis
Our Master student Asude Aydin has received the UZH Award 2023 for her outstanding master thesis. Check out her paper here, which is based on her Master thesis.

2023-03-07 | RPG | Fang Nan wins ETH Medal for his Master Thesis
Our Master student Fang Nan has received the ETH Medal 2023 and the Willi Studer Prize for his outstanding master thesis.

2023-12-27 | RPG | NCCR Robotics Most Impactful Paper Award
Congratulations to Alessandro Giusti and his co-authors for winning the NCCR Robotics Most Impactful Paper Award for the paper "A Machine Learning Approach to Visual Perception of Forest Trails for Mobile Robots" (PDF).

2023 | HASEL | UZH Postdoc Team Award
A Smartwatch App to Tackle Long Covid.

2022-09-16 | RPG | NCCR Robotics Master Thesis Award
Congratulations to our former Master student Michelle Ruegg for winning the NCCR Robotics Master Thesis Award, for her thesis on combining frames and events for asynchronous multi-modal monocular depth prediction! The thesis was supervised by Daniel Gehrig and Mathias Gehrig.

2022-07-04 | RPG | 2022 George Giralt Award
Congratulations to our former PhD student Antonio Loquercio for winning the 2022 George Giralt PhD Award, the most prestigious award for PhD dissertations in robotics in Europe, for his work on learning vision-based high-speed drone flight! We are very proud of you!
PhD thesis PDF, Video of the PhD defense, Google Scholar profile, Personal page

2022-05-27 | RPG | RAL Best Paper Award
Our paper Autonomous Quadrotor Flight Despite Rotor Failure With Onboard Vision Sensors: Frames vs. Events wins the prestigious IEEE RAL Best Paper Award.
PDF YouTube Code

2022 | HASEL | 2022 DIZH Rapid Action Grant
FlowLight: Fostering Productive Work in Hybrid Workplaces through an Ambient Display

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