EUROPEAN ROBOTICS HOUSE

All eyes on Europe's best robotics builders · Zurich October-December 2026

  • European Student Robotics Association
  • EuroTech Federation
  • Edelweiss Innovation & Intelligence Institute

Mentors

Damien LaRocque

Damien LaRocque

Robotics Engineering · Sereact

Bob Deforce

Bob Deforce

Startups · Anthropic

Loik Le Devehat

Loik Le Devehat

Founding Engineering · Genesis AI

Caroline Pascal

Caroline Pascal

Robotics Engineering · Hugging Face

Chris Matthieu

Chris Matthieu

Serial Entrepreneur · RealSense

Raphael Levy

Raphael Levy

Europe GTM · Foxglove

Lukas Ziegler

Lukas Ziegler

Chief Evangelist · botnanza

Basile Tever

Basile Tever

Researcher · AMI Labs

Frederic Boesel

Frederic Boesel

Founding Member · Black Forest Labs

German Rodriguez

German Rodriguez

Robotics AI Infrastructure Eng · mimic

Loïc Delineau

Loïc Delineau

CEO · CO:PROD

Maurizio Cortese

Maurizio Cortese

CEO · αGORAi

Leopold Treppoz

Leopold Treppoz

Chief of Staff · AMI Labs

Three months to ship
Physical AI.

Fifteen exceptional builders live and work together in Zurich. Bring an ambitious robotics project; leave with a system people can see, test and believe in: the kind of proof that becomes Europe's next breakout robotics company.

The residency

3 MONTHS (OCT-DEC) · ZURICH · 15 BUILDERS

An on-site lab, a shared home, and technical peers who will push the work forward every day. Free access to over €1.5 million in humanoids, compute and hardware, no equity. Housing and offices provided. The cohort ships in front of founders, investors and the public at Demo Day on 18 December.

Application closes on September 1st.

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Partner with us

HARDWARE · COMPUTE · SOFTWARE

Put your hardware, compute, or software to work with fifteen ambitious builders, and get your brand in front of the mentors, industry leaders and 1,000+ visitors who pass through the house. Real usage, real feedback, and a front-row seat across up to ten curated events.

Partner slots are limited and fill on a rolling basis.

Become a partner

Meet our advisors

Perspectives from advisors who spend their time backing robotics builders, on why this is the moment to build.

Thomas Wolf
Robotics is increasingly becoming the next frontier that AI will unlock.

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder & CSO · Hugging Face

Hugging Face
Andreas Klinger
The mental model is simple:
robotics is the next SaaS.

Andreas Klinger

Founder & Solo GP · PROTOTYPE

PROTOTYPE

Ambition is the only requirement.

Idea, prototype, or shipped product: the stage doesn't matter. What matters is being ruthlessly good. Three months. One Zurich lab. Free hardware, no equity taken.

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Builders working at benches inside the robotics lab
A builder writing robotics code next to a camera module on the bench
The EuroTech builder community together
A DJ set draws a crowd at an EuroTech event
A builder demoing a quadruped robot to a seated audience