Empa Sustainability Robotics

The mission of Empa Robotics is to develop, demonstrate and commercialise novel robotic platforms for environmental sensing and autonomous manufacturing for the sustainable society of the future.

Empa Robotics play a major role in environmental sustainability. The team are using biological materials as a form of a biodegradable transient robot with actuation and sensing capability and minimal environmental footprints. They are also working on soft robotic research to adapt to the unstructured, real-world environment. Another project demonstrates aerial robots as an artificial immune system for construction and repair to predict and perform maintenance in real-time. In addition, multi-modal robots are being developed for environmental sensings, such as biodiversity monitoring in the forest or underwater sampling in a lake, and much more.