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Marco Hutter: Breaking the Wall to Intelligent Mobile Robots – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Human limitations in tasks involving precision, repetition, and hazardous conditions have sparked a transformative wave of innovation in robotics. Unlike humans, robots excel in areas demanding unwavering accuracy, tireless repetition, and the ability to work…

OK Go Sandbox is a collection of 25+ videos, a website, lesson plans, social media interactions, participatory projects – such as “Art in Space” and “#ArtTogetherNow” – as well as live events that help kids and families explore science, engineering, art, math, and more through the music videos and education…

The nominating institute Geomar on the breakthrough: The independent evolution of pregnancy in most vertebrate groups required drastic morphological and genomic reorganisation. Roth’s project focuses on adaptation in male pregnancy evolution in pipefishes and seahorses, evolving on a gradient from external fertilisation to full pregnancy. Only this genus allows the…

The nominating institution EPFL on the breakthrough: Safe and affordable housing and infrastructure are key to sustainable global development and rely on construction materials such as cement. Cement production is responsible for ~8% of global CO2 emission. Limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) allows up to 50% reduction of CO2 emission…

This Round Table will mark the global launch of the report ‘Confidence in Research’ conducted by Economist Impact and supported by Elsevier. Digitalization has impacted not only the practice and dissemination of scientific knowledge, but also the credibility of how scientific information is judged. Putting scientific research at the forefront,…

Democracy is at risk. All around the world, democratic states, governments and democratic values that lie at the core of a peaceful and equal society are being weakened and eroded, thus paving the way for anti-democratic sentiments and systems. A historian and anthropologist and Professor at the University of São…

Is there other life out there? Astonishing findings in recent years and cutting-edge research are bringing us ever closer to answering one of the most fundamental questions in science. The discovery of planets outside our solar system likely to have habitable conditions has thrilled astronomers hunting for a world resembling…

Chuan He: Breaking the Wall to a New Green Revolution – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Crop scarcity, exacerbated by climate change, presents a daunting challenge for our future food security. Rising global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and increased frequency of extreme weather events like droughts and floods directly impact…

The nominating institution EPFL on the breakthrough: Nora Al Badri’s unique work joining art, AI, and cultural heritage was advanced during her residency at the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) of the CDH, EPFL, and will culminate with an exhibition in Autumn 2020. A pre-trained neural network based on GAN…

Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the universe. In this regard it is almost the exact opposite of fossil fuels, which are incredibly rare and hard to extract. So wouldn’t it be great if we could swap fossil fuels for renewable sources such as hydrogen? This Falling Walls…