Tour de Suisse for Geeks

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

ETH ZÜRICH
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, ZURICH

21 Nobel Prize Winners 
Wilhelm C.Röntgen,
Albert Einstein,
Heinrich Rohrer
ETH ZÜRICH
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

ETH ZÜRICH: ROBOTICS

Multiplayer Games in  
Robot-Assisted  
Rehabilitation
Prof. R. Riener
Robot-AssistedTraining  
in Sports
Exoskeleton Robots  
for Rehabilitation

81h non-stop  
autonomous ﬂight!
TED 2016 TED 2013
Flying Machine Arena
http://ﬂyingmachinearena.org
Prof. R. D’Andrea

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

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

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!

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

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

TRAIN RIDE:
ZURICHTO BERN
(VIA LUZERN-INTERLAKEN)

TRAIN RIDE:
ZURICHTO BERN
Golden Pass Train Line:
Luzern - Interlaken - Montreux
Switzerland’s biggest museum:  
Swiss Museum of Transport

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

TRAIN RIDE 1:
ZURICHTO BERN
Top of Europe
Jungfraujoch

TRAIN RIDE 1:
ZURICHTO BERN
Europe’s highest railway station
3,454 metres above sea level

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

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)

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

GRUYERE - H.R. GIGER MUSEUM
Oscar 1980

TRAIN RIDE:
BERNTO LAUSANNE
Lavaux
Unesco World Heritage Site

Lavaux
Unesco World Heritage Site
TRAIN RIDE:
BERNTO LAUSANNE

EPFL, LAUSANNE
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY, LAUSANNE

EPFL, 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

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

EPFL, LAUSANNE - ROBOTICS
Prof. D. Floreano  
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
Soft Robotics Aerial Robotics Evolutionary Robotics

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

EPFL, LAUSANNE
EPFL Spinoff: 
senseFly S.A
EPFL Spinoff: 
Flyability

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

CERN
EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

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

THANK YOU FOR
YOUR INTEREST!
Enjoy your geeky Swiss trip!
Contact:  
matthias.frey@eda.admin.ch
Photos:  
www.swiss-image.ch

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