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Zurich/São José dos Campos – The Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is relying on expertise from the Greater Zurich Area for its autonomous aircraft. It is working together with Daedalean, a startup that develops artificial intelligence applications for aviation.

New York - Switzerland comes in fourth place in the new World Happiness Report. Information on economic output, life expectancy, and health was taken into consideration, among other things.

Schlieren – TOPADUR Pharma AG in the Greater Zurich Area has been granted a patent by the European Patent Office for its lead investigational drug product, TOP-N53. The drug is used for the treatment of chronic wounds, commonly associated with diabetes.

Zurich - Decentriq has closed a Series A funding round, strengthening its capital base by US$15 million. The startup intends to use the money to develop data clean rooms that enable companies to collaborate on the most restricted and sensitive data.

Winterthur - Acodis has launched a new platform for the smart processing of documents such as PDFs and emails. The Acodis IDP Platform functions on the basis of machine learning technology. It aims to enable companies to convert any document in any language into structured data

Zurich - The robotics specialist ANYbotics has presented the world’s first explosion-proof inspection robot on legs in the form of the ANYmal X. At the same time, ANYbotics and the Malaysian petroleum company Petronas have agreed to scale deployment of the ANYmal X across the oil and gas and chemicals industries as a whole.

Dübendorf - Mirko Kovac has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant worth 2 million euros. Kovac is conducting research into metamorphic drones that can both fly through the air and move through water at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology.

Zurich/London - Institutional investors are expected to be able to trade centrally cleared Bitcoin and Ethereum futures on SIX from the third quarter of 2022. Thereafter, the product portfolio is to be expanded to include all other crypto futures. SIX is working together with the LMAX Group to realize this vision.

Winterthur/Lucerne - Bug Bounty Switzerland and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) are jointly carrying out research with the aim of making cyber protection accessible to SMEs and public authorities. The focus of this project is on alternative financing models and non-monetary incentives for ethical hackers.