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Manno/Badajoz/Paris - XFarm Technologies is strengthening its position in agricultural digitization: it is now collaborating with SpaceSense from Paris on spatial artificial intelligence and with Spain’s Greenfield Technologies on soil characterization.

Schlieren/Shenzhen - Fixposition and Chinese company Whale Dynamic are working together to integrate Fixposition’s Vision-RTK 2 positioning sensor into Whale Dynamic’s fully autonomous vehicles.

Schlieren/St. Paul - In future, HeiQ Synbio Cleaners are to be sold by Ecolab in the European Union, EFTA member states and the UK. In this context, HeiQ will receive an advance payment of 1.8 million euros to cover the first two years of market launch.

Zurich/Dübendorf/Bastrop - Swissloop Tunneling has won the Not-a-Boring-Competition 2024 in Texas and claimed the Champion Award. The team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich was supported by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology.

Bellinzona - BancaStato, the cantonal bank of Ticino, will from now on be awarding the Premio BancaStato per la Sostenibilità Aziendale to a trio of SMEs every two years. This award comes with prize money of 80,000 Swiss francs. The aim is to recognize effective sustainability strategies developed by companies.

Schaffhausen - 2HS AG has launched the one-graphene platform, where the startup specializing in graphene nanoelectrics offers synthetic single-crystalline CVD graphene films. 2HS is collaborating with the Beijing Graphene Institute for this.

Zug/San Francisco - Xterio and the gaming platform Forge have announced a partnership. Xterio, a developer of high-quality Web3 games, launched its SocialFi rewards campaign on Forge on April 16. This platform gives Xterio access to an enormous pool of new users, enabling it to scale its products.

Zurich - Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) are developing a robot that can operate in low gravity environments. The device could potentially assist the exploration of mineral resources and research into the origins of the universe.

Zurich - Fotokite has generated gross proceeds in the amount of 10 million Swiss francs in its latest Series B financing round. With this investment, the company will strive to further internationalize the markets for its aerial reconnaissance system for emergency services. In addition, research and development activities are also to be bolstered.