Traveling from Zurich to Geneva - for Geeks and Nerds! - My favorite presentation that I had given in June 2016 for the Cybathlon Pep Rally Event in Tokyo: https://www.stofficetokyo.ch/cybathlon-pep-rally-in-tokyo/ https://www.stofficetokyo.ch/cybathlon-pep-rally-videos-now-online/

1. ギークのためのスイス旅行
TOUR DE SUISSE FOR GEEKS
Matthias Frey
Science & Technology Office Tokyo, Embassy of Switzerland in Japan

7. ZÜRICH

8. ETH ZÜRICH
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, ZURICH

9. 21 Nobel Prize Winners
Wilhelm C.Röntgen,
Albert Einstein,
Heinrich Rohrer
ETH ZÜRICH
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, ZURICH
founded in 1855
19’200 students,
including 4’000 doctoral students
from over 120 countries
500 professors
330 spin-offs since 1996
Top-Ranked:
9th in THE ranking
9th in QS ranking

10. ETH ZÜRICH: ROBOTICS
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, ZURICH

11. ETH ZÜRICH: ROBOTICS
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, ZURICH
Multiplayer Games in
Robot-Assisted
Rehabilitation
Prof. R. Riener
Robot-AssistedTraining
in Sports
Exoskeleton Robots
for Rehabilitation

12. ETH ZÜRICH: ROBOTICS
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, ZURICH
81h non-stop
autonomous flight!
TED 2016 TED 2013
Flying Machine Arena
http://flyingmachinearena.org
Prof. R. D’Andrea

13. ETH ZÜRICH
ROBOTICS

14. ETH ZÜRICH: ROBOTICS
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, ZURICHThe goal of the robot is to
facilitate in situ fabrication
directly on building
construction sites.
Prof. Jonas Buchli

15. ETH ZÜRICH: ROBOTICS
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, ZURICH
81h non-stop
autonomous flight!
A UAV for the first-ever
autonomous solar-powered
crossing of the Atlantic Ocean
Prof. R. Siegwart
StarlETH the
'Dog' Robot
Learns to Walk,
Run and Climb

16. ETH ZÜRICH
IN COLLABORATION WITH
LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS
Last but not least....
New World Record:
from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.513 sec
The grimsel electric racing car broke the world record for acceleration by an electric car!

17. World’s Most Quiet Room
3 Nobel Prizes (out of 4)
First IBM Research Lab
outside USA

18. BEING HUNGRY IN
ZÜRICH
Guinness Book of World Records
World’s Oldest
Vegetarian Restaurant
since 1898

20. TRAIN RIDE:
ZURICHTO BERN
(VIA LUZERN-INTERLAKEN)

21. TRAIN RIDE:
ZURICHTO BERN
(VIA LUZERN-INTERLAKEN)
Golden Pass Train Line:
Luzern - Interlaken - Montreux
Switzerland’s biggest museum:
Swiss Museum of Transport

22. TRAIN RIDE:
SACHSELN
(LUZERN-INTERLAKEN)
NASA Rover Opportunity
39 Maxon
DC Motors
38km in 10 years
at down to -120˚C

23. TRAIN RIDE 1:
ZURICHTO BERN
(VIA LUZERN-INTERLAKEN)
Top of Europe
Jungfraujoch

24. TRAIN RIDE 1:
ZURICHTO BERN
(VIA LUZERN-INTERLAKEN)
Europe’s highest railway station
3,454 metres above sea level

25. BERN

26. UNIVERSITY OF BERN

27. Climate Research:
- pioneering ice core research
(Prof Oeschger)
Space Research:
- contributed to the first
moon-landing
- provides apparatus for NASA
and ESA space missions
- CaSSIS Project:
UNIVERSITY OF BERN
Prof.AnnaTumarkin:
first female professor in Europe
with the right to examine doctoral students
first in the world:
faculty of veterinary medicine

28. BERN

29. BERN
Old Town of Bern:
Founded in the 12th century
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Einstein House:
Museum and a former residence
of Albert Einstein (1903-1905)

30. NEUCHÂTEL - WATCHVALLEY

31. CSEM, NEUCHÂTEL
SWISS CENTER FOR ELECTRONICS AND MICROTECHNOLOGY
3 watch-related organizations merged into CSEM (1984):
- Centre Electronique Horloger (CEH)
- Fondation Suisse pour la Recherche en Microtechnique (FSRM)
- Laboratoire Suisse de Recherches Horlogères (LSRH)
CSEM Beta-1:
World’s first quartz watch (1966)
Omega Electroquartz beta 21 calibre 1300
First Swiss production quartz watch (1970)
New World Record!
January 5, 2016:
Dual-junction III-V/Si solar cell
29.8 percent

32. NEUCHÂTEL - CREUX DUVAN

33. GRUYERE - CHEESE & ALIENS

34. GRUYERE - H.R. GIGER MUSEUM
Oscar 1980

35. TRAIN RIDE:
BERNTO LAUSANNE
Lavaux
Unesco World Heritage Site

36. Lavaux
Unesco World Heritage Site
TRAIN RIDE:
BERNTO LAUSANNE

37. Lavaux
Unesco World Heritage Site
TRAIN RIDE:
BERNTO LAUSANNE

38. LAUSANNE

39. EPFL, LAUSANNE
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, LAUSANNE

40. EPFL, LAUSANNE
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, LAUSANNE
World leading university
QS Rankings: 14th
THE Rankings:12th (Engineering)
Most international University!
(more than 100 nationalities on campus)
Prof. János Pach (Mathematics)
One of the few living Mathematicians with Erdos Number 1
Prof. Claude Nicollier
(Astronaut)
EPFL Spinoff: Logitech(Logicool)
Logitech C7, developed in a farmhouse in Switzerland,
came to market in 1985.
Prof. Michael Grätzel
Dye-sensitized solar cells

41. ROLEX LEARNING CENTER
ARCHITECTS: SANAA STUDIO (PRITZKER PRIZE WINNER 2010)

42. EPFL, LAUSANNE - ROBOTICS
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, LAUSANNE
Prof. D. Floreano
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
Soft Robotics Aerial Robotics Evolutionary Robotics

43. EPFL, LAUSANNE - ROBOTICS
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, LAUSANNE
Delta Robot (1980)
by Prof. R. Clavel
Robogami
by Prof. J. Paik
Roombots (self-organizing furniture)
by Prof. A. Ijspeert

44. EPFL, LAUSANNE
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, LAUSANNE
EPFL Spinoff:
senseFly S.A
EPFL Spinoff:
Flyability

45. GENEVA

46. GENEVA

47. GENEVA
notable alumni:
Ian Fleming — James Bond — Kofi Annan
University of
Geneva:
founded in 1559
by Jean Calvin
http://exoplanets.ch
Prof. M.
Mayor

48. GENEVA

49. CERN
EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

52. founded in 1954
now: 21 member states
World Wide Web
invented at CERN in
1989 by Tim Berners-Lee
Large Hadron Collider
The 27-kilometre LHC is the world's largest
particle accelerator. It collides protons or lead ions
at energies approaching the speed of light
LHC Magnet Coils
9,600 super magnets
100,000 times more powerful
than the Earth’s magnetic field
7,600 km of cable,
which amounts to about
270,000 km of strand

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YOUR INTEREST!
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