- Urban Environment
- Digital Twin
- Collaboration with Hexagon, Nvidia, and ETH
A space for accelerated autonomous business.
#SwissAutonomousValley will be the leading digitalization initiative for autonomous systems worldwide. We accelerate the development and approval process of autonomous systems by replicating real cities in mirror worlds. We make testing locations available and organize incentive competitions to push the envelope in autonomous systems development.
A simple logic with a big impact
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Layer 1: Physical location
Permanent access to physical testing spaces
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Layer 2: Mirror World
Training of autonomous systems through leading simulation frameworks (e.g. NVIDIA ISAAC, Microsoft Airsim)
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Layer 3: Regulation Scenarios
Providing regulatory relevant scenarios that can be tested in both spaces and that allow the regulator to accept virtually tested elements in the approval process
A central access to all autonomous zones in Switzerland
1Zürich, Hönggerberg
2Zug
- Urban environment
- Ground and air systems (in- and outdoor)
- In Collaboration with Tech Cluster Zug
3Dübendorf
- Ground and air systems with a drone cage (in planning)
- In collaboration with Innovation Park Zürich
4Wangen an der Aare (in planning)
- Test environment for civil protection (in- and outdoor)
- In collaboration with Armasuisse
5Lodrino (in planning)
- Airfield for the test of air system
- In collaboration with Fondazione Agire
6Berner Oberland (in planning)
- Rural environment
- Ground and air systems
- In Collaboration with the local community
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Tangible use cases — close to business
There are already different projects in Switzerland. Several of our partners are testing autonomous systems in Switzerland. These projects explore different questions and aspects like maturity of the technology, regulation, impact on society and business cases.
With #SwissAutonomousValley we accelerate those cases and we’re planning to develop new business cases, e.g.
- Drone delivery
- Mailbox robot
- Street cleaning
Partners
Team

Urs Stender
Managing Director
#SwissAutonomousValley

Andrea Marazzo
Head Autonomous Delivery
Swiss Post

Manfred Bacher
Business Developer
Swisscom
Board

Roger Wüthrich-Hasenböhler
President of the Board
CDO, Swisscom

Daniel Gerber
Vice-President of the Board
Head of Innovation, Swiss Post

Burkhard Boeckem
Board Member
CTO, Hexagon

Marianne Jannik
Board Member
CEO, Microsoft Schweiz

Markus Farner
Board Member
Head of Innovation, FOCA

Lukas André
Board Member
Head of Marketing, Tech Cluster Zug

Christian Wenger
Board Member
Partner, Wenger & Vieli

Roland Siegwart
Board Member
Head of ASL, ETH Zurich
Events
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Central access to autonomous training facilities
Virtual training platform (in development)
One voice towards political decision-makers
Best-practice exchange
Solution oriented active networking