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Events

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23Oct
Autoresearch Log #1
Maksym Andriushchenko (ELLIS Institute Tübingen) on automating LLM post-training, followed by paper discussions and demos.
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Autoresearch Log
J floor
29Oct
ZurichCV #15
Said Gürbüz (ETH Zurich) on controllable desktop environments for computer use agents, and Lorenzo Steno (Seldon Technologies) on building RL environments for computer use.
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ZurichCV
ETH AI Center
133
3Nov
Tufa Talks #5
Dominique Paul (Dream Machines) on teaching robots manufacturing tasks through demonstration.
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Tufa Labs, Zurich

News

22 Oct

Enact raises USD 30M pre-seed

Enact raises USD 30 million to develop robots that sense force and touch through their own actuators.

Funding Robotics

19 Oct

ETH recovers up to 98% of acrylic plastic’s building blocks

ETH Zurich researchers break down acrylic plastic into reusable chemical building blocks without solvents, achieving yields of up to 98%.

Research Materials

16 Oct

Stellar Alpina completes 150 rocket-engine hotfires

Stellar Alpina reports completing 150 rocket-engine hotfires across 23 configurations, exceeding its target of 100 tests over the summer. The Duebendorf propulsion company is developing rotating detonation rocket engines; the campaign follows the eight initial hotfires covered in its earlier funding announcement. The team deliberately pushed combustion chambers to failure to investigate design limits and collected measurements to guide subsequent iterations. It reports turnaround times as short as 30 minutes between some tests and shared footage of the campaign. These are ground-development tests, not flight qualification or an orbital demonstration.

Hardware Space