In search for the intelligent machine - AnalyticsWeek

Elvis Nava is a fellow at ETH' Zurich's AI center as well as a doctoral student at the Institute of Neuroinformatics and in the Soft Robotics Lab. In ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab, a white robot hand reaches for a beer can, lifts it up and moves it to a glass at the other end of the table. There, the hand carefully tilts the can to the right and pours the sparkling, gold-coloured liquid into the glass without spilling it. Computer scientist Elvis Nava is the person controlling the robot hand developed by ETH start-up Faive Robotics. The 26-year-old doctoral student's own hand hovers over a surface equipped with sensors and a camera.