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News & Insights
10-11-2026
ETH start-up nuorail makes trains more energy-efficient, building on NCCR Automation research that ETH Zurich and FHNW tested on Swiss rails with Stadler Rail and Schweizerische Südostbahn (SOB).
21-10-2026
Can AI help us decide where to study or work? Stefania Ionescu shows that even accurate and trusted automated recommendations may lead to bad outcomes
07-10-2026
Catch up with kuafu as they talk through two recent pilot projects and what it takes to enable buildings to respond to local energy constraints in real time.