News
June 2019
We are celebrating the opening of the ETH Center for Robotics with a 2-day Robotics Symposium and the first Robotics Summer School at ETH Zurich!
December 2018
Join us for our Open Lab day 2018 on December 7th for live demos and a social get-together! Check out the event details here
November 2018
Are you interested in joining our team? Check out external pagethis opening for a postdoctoral researcher.
September 2018
Another external pageCNN Money's Tech Talk features an interview with Prof Chli giving a brief overview of our work on vision-based robotic perception.
June 2018
external pageCNN Money's Tech Talk covers our work on collaborative robotic perception demonstrated on flying and legged robots as part of the external pageNCCR Robotics' search-and-rescue grant challenge.
May 2018
Once more, V4RL had great presence at ICRA! Marco and Fabiola have each been awarded a RAS Travel Grant, while Margarita gave a external pagekeynote talk on the 1st day of the conference. This year, we had 4 papers presented, while we've also co-organised the external pageWorkshop onAerial Robotic Inspection and Maintenance: Research Challenges, Field Experience and Industry Needs, which resulted to interesting discussions and insights from academic and industrial participants.
Margarita gives an invited speech at WORLD.MINDS -- external pagecheck it out.
November 2017
July 2017
May 2017
V4RL has great presence at ICRA with 5 exciting new works and co-organisation of the external pageWorkshop onAutonomous Structural Monitoring and Maintenance using Aerial Robots, which was a great success. Thank you all for attending and sharing your insights and latest findings!
January 2017
The V4RL Aerial Inspection dataset as well as the mesh-based scene representation code are both publicly available.
December 2016
November 2016
V4RL is participating in the Swiss Robotics Industry Day 2016, which will take place in Lausanne on the 2nd November 2016. Come and visit us there! Further information is available external pagehere.
October 2016
Marco Karrer presents his paper on "Real-time Dense Surface Reconstruction for Aerial Manipulation" (external pagevideo external pageDOI E-Citations) and Lucas Teixeira presents his paper on "Real-Time Mesh-based Scene Estimation for Aerial Inspection" (external pagevideo external pageDOI E-Citations) in external pageIROS 2016 in Daejeon, Korea.
Margarita Chli features in Robohub's list of external page"25 women in Robotics you need to know about - 2016"
Coverage of the V4RL research activities from external pageDas Magazin: "Drohnen mit Verstand" (german)
September 2016
Coverage from external pageSchweizer Illustrierte (german)
May 2016
Margarita Chli awared Best Associate Editor at ICRA 2016
Margarita Chli gives her inaugural lecture at ETH Zurich. You can watch it here.
V4RL co-organises the ICRA 2016 Workshopon Aerial Robotics Manipulation: From Simulation to Real-Life.
July 2016
Two new V4RL papers have been accepted for publication at external pageIROS 2016. Congratulations to two main authors, Lucas Teixeira and Marco Karrer, in particular!
March 2016
V4RL participates in the Meet Your Lab event at D-MAVT, ETH Zurich