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Your doctor or AI – where would you turn for medical advice?

The effects of humanity’s quest to survey the world are also being felt in the healthcare sector. With ever more data being collected, intelligent technologies are now required to ensure that it can be managed and evaluated.

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Digitisation can make medicine more humane

Does artificial intelligence improve medical treatments? Will robots take over the tasks of physiotherapists? Are exoskeletons set to make walkers redundant? Three experts from the ZHAW talk about the secrets to successful digitisation in the healthcare sector and why we shouldn't be afraid of it.

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Making healthcare smarter with AI

While artificial intelligence is already taking on specific tasks in the healthcare sector today, it would technically be possible for it to do a great deal more. For this to happen, however, a legal (...)
Tobias Hänni
25.09.2023
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Digitisation in the nursing sector: People or robots – do we have a choice?

Nursing professionals can certainly imagine the use of robots in their workplace – at least within certain limits. A ZHAW study also shows care recipients to be surprisingly open-minded as regards the (...)
Thomas Müller
25.09.2023
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A historic collaboration: Switzerland’s own version of ChatGPT

The ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence has joined forces with researchers from other AI labs and companies to found the start-up AlpineAI, which is launching a Swiss version of ChatGPT. Under the (...)
Patricia Faller
25.09.2023
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Making tablets fit for the circular economy

Students from the School of Management and Law took on a big task: making the pharmaceutical industry more circular. They undertook their work together with five engineering students from the renowned (...)
Rahel Lüönd
25.09.2023
- Opinion
Planetary Health episode 4: Shaping our communities – learning from the voluntary fire brigade

As we work towards achieving the Sustainability Development Goals outlined in Agenda 2030, the United Nations’ latest report on our planet’s current state paints a rather bleak picture. The planet is (...)
Gisela and Tilo Hühn
25.09.2023
- Opinion
Machine intelligence and shaping an ethical future

How might our increasingly machine-intelligence-driven world change if we were to explore the ongoing evolution of both past and current paradigm shifts? And what path might emerge if we were to trace (...)
Tilo Hühn
19.09.2023
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Entrepreneurial university: “All students should experience entrepreneurial spirit with us”

Recognition as a place of entrepreneurial thinking should become part of the ZHAW’s distinctive profile. After all, entrepreneurial spirit is not only important for startups, but also for existing (...)
Interview by Patricia Faller
27.06.2023
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Giving our entrepreneurial university wings

Students, employees and external parties are working together to develop ideas for transforming the ZHAW into a leading entrepreneurial university. In doing so, focus is being placed on facilitating (...)
Manuel Martin
27.06.2023
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“What sets an entrepreneur apart?”

ZHAW Impact surveyed the participants of the first ZHAW Innovation Challenge, which was launched by the “ZHAW entrepreneurship” strategic initiative. This innovation process is focussing on the (...)

27.06.2023
- Opinion
Planetary Health – episode 3: The planet's general terms and conditions

With the return of neighbourhood gardens in cities and urban farming projects, the desire to retake control of how our food is produced is now being addressed. After all, in the opinion of many, there (...)
Gisela and Tilo Hühn
27.06.2023
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Where startups germinate and flourish

The Center for Entrepreneurship supports founders as they take their first steps in the world of startups and draw up bold plans for conquering the international market with their companies. Matthias (...)
Ümit Yoker
27.06.2023
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“You never know what the next day will bring”

Food technologist José Amado-Blanco co-founded the startup Yamo, which sells baby and children’s food made from natural ingredients. The ZHAW graduate is already tinkering with new ideas.
Seraina Sattler
27.06.2023
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VirtaMed: highly realistic simulators for surgery training

The VirtaMed company developed out of a joint project conducted by ZHAW and ETH and constitutes a prime example of how different universities can work together. Today, VirtaMed has achieved (...)
David Bäuerle
27.06.2023
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Academia-Industry Training: from the lab to India

With the Academia-Industry Training India, the ZHAW-based Leading House South Asia and Iran is promoting young sciencepreneurs from Switzerland with an interest in the Indian market.
Nicole Minder
27.06.2023