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The Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) is part of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. It replaced the existing Institut fuer Robotik of the ETH Zurich in 2003, when Prof. Dr. Bradley Nelson moved from the University of Minnesota, USA, to ETH Zurich. Since 2003, IRIS is constantly growing, and is currently including four independent laboratories conducting research that ranges from nanodevices for biomedical applications, to rehabilitation systems and autonomous aerial vehicles.

= History =

= Laboratories =

Currently, four laboratories are part of IRIS. Prof. Bradley Nelson is the leader of the Multiscale Robotics Lab. Prof. Roland Siegwart leads the Autonomous Systems Lab. The Sensory-Motor Lab is lead by Prof. Robert Riener, and the Rehabilitation Engineering Lab is lead by Prof. Roger Gassert. The laboratories of IRIS are independent entities that conduct research in areas ranging from nanodevices for biomedicine, to systems for rehabilitation and autonomous aerial vehicles.

Multiscale Robotics Lab
The Multiscale Robotics Laboratory (MSRL) was founded in 2007, after Prof. Roland Siegwart and the Autonomous Systems Lab joined IRIS from the EPFL Lausanne.

The Multi-Scale Robotics Lab pursues a dynamic research program that maintains a strong robotics research focus on several emerging areas of science and technology. A major component of the MSRL research leverages advanced robotics for creating intelligent machines that operate at micron and nanometer scales. MSRL research develops the tools and processes required to fabricate and assemble micron sized robots and nanometer scale robotic components. Many of these systems are used for robotic exploration within biological domains, such as in the investigation of molecular structures, cellular systems, and complex organism behavior, an emerging field the laboratory refers to as BioMicroRobotics.