February 2018

The ETH Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics investigates the relationship between movement and loading within the body. The results of the CAMS-Knee project help to improve implant design. Watch the video.

Early detection of steel corrosion is important globally, e.g. in bridges or pipelines. The sensor system of the ETH Durability of Engineering Materials Group is now applied in a first field test in Cuba. Watch the video.

Purified water is used in many industries, like e.g. the semiconductor industry. The invention of ETH Pioneer Fellow Ali Altun enables the monitoring of the water quality and the detection of impurities in the parts-per-trillion range. Watch the video.

Imagine muting a ringing cell phone with a quick and subtle gesture, like a flick of your finger. ETH professor Otmar Hilliges tells us about his exciting research collaboration with Google on project SOLI, which aims at replacing conventional buttons by gesture sensors.

Mark Bispinghoff, a Pioneer Fellow at ETH Zurich, developed novel light-active medical fillers. These can be used to form implants in any cavity inside the body – for example in teeth and in bones, and even in the brain.