The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (, IDSIA) is a

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in the

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district of Canton Ticino, in southern Switzerland. It was founded in 1988 by Angelo Dalle Molle through the private Fondation Dalle Molle, and in 2000 became a public research institute, affiliated with the Università della Svizzera italiana and SUPSI in Ticino. It is one of four Swiss research organisations founded by the Dalle Molle foundation, of which three are in the field of artificial intelligence.

History

The institute was founded in 1988 by Angelo Dalle Molle through the private Fondation Dalle Molle, and in 2000 became a public

, affiliated with the Università della Svizzera italiana and SUPSI in Ticino. In 1997 it was listed among the top ten

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

laboratories, and among the top four in the field of biologically-inspired AI. In 2007, a robotics lab was established, with a focus on intelligent and learning robots, especially in the fields of swarm and

humanoid robot A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments and working alongside humans, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipeda ...

ics.Robotics Lab
IDSIA Robotics Lab. Accessed March 2016. Between 2009 and 2012,

artificial neural network In machine learning, a neural network (also artificial neural network or neural net, abbreviated ANN or NN) is a computational model inspired by the structure and functions of biological neural networks. A neural network consists of connected ...

s developed at the institute won eight international competitions in

pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is not to be confused with pattern machines (PM) which may possess PR capabilities but their p ...

and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

.Amara D. Angelica (28 November 2012)
How bio-inspired deep learning keeps winning competitions: An interview with Dr. Juergen Schmidhuber on the future of neural networks
. Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence newsletter. Accessed March 2016. In 2024, development began on a wheelchair designed to be guided by drones and artificial intelligence.Sara Ibrahim (11 October 2024)
Swiss drone-assisted wheelchair showcases AI’s promise and problems
''SWI swissinfo.ch''. Accessed April 2025.

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