Prof. Aldo Steinfeld's team made the cover page of the "Energy Technology" Journal, Volume 4, Issue 5, May 2016.

Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea received the IEEE Technical Field Award in Robotics and Automation 2016 at the Award Ceremony held during ICRA 2016 from 16 to 21 May 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Kilian Schillai, doctoral student in Prof. Edoardo Mazza’s group and member of the EMPA Laboratory “Mechanical Integrity of Energy Systems”, received a Best Poster Award for his poster “Thermal Treatments for Increased Fretting Fatigue Endurance of Overhead Electrical Conductors” at the CCMX Annual Meeting.

Javier Alonso-Mora, a former Master and doctoral student of Prof. Roland Siegwart, was appointed Assistant Professor Tenure Track in Optimization and Control for Autonomous Systems within the Delft Center for Systems and Control, at TU Delft. He will start on 1 October 2016.

The short film “SPARKED: A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters” developed by Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea’s group in cooperation with Cirque du Soleil and the spin-off Verity Studios has won the New York City Drone Film Festival Award 2016 in the Featuring Drones category.

Mark Müller, former doctoral student in Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea’s group, has won the George Giralt PhD Award 2016 for his doctoral thesis "Increased autonomy for quadrocopter systems: trajectory generation, fail-safe strategies, and state estimation". The George Giralt PhD Award is an annual award given by the European Robotics Research Network for the best robotics doctoral thesis in Europe.

Dr. Ronny Michalsky, postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Aldo Steinfeld’s group, has been awarded an AMBIZIONE Energy Grant by the SNSF to investigate solar membrane reactors for splitting H2O and CO2.

Researchers from Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea’s group in the Institute for Dynamics Systems and Control have developed the mechanically simplest, controllable, flying machine in existence.

Dr. Mattia Gazzola, former doctoral student in Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos’ group and postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University, has been promoted to Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign, USA.