ETH Zürich

Matteo Giger

I'm a mechanical engineering undergraduate at ETH Zürich with hands-on experience across aerial robotics, custom hardware, simulation, and robot learning.

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Matteo Giger

Selected work

Projects

2026

ETH Focus Project

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Swiss Robotics inspection drone prototype render
Swiss Robotics · Inspection UAV

2024–2026 · Swiss Robotics

Confined-Space Inspection Drone

Employer project at Swiss Robotics: fully actuated inspection UAV with modular NDT payloads, Isaac Sim control debugging, C++ onboard stack, and a Flutter + GStreamer operator app.

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ETH Robotics Club bimanual setup folding a towel autonomously
Bimanual · Imitation Learning

Sep 2025 – Jun 2026

ETH Robotics Club · Robot Learning

Software on the robot learning team: self-collision detection for bimanual manipulators, inverse dynamics control, and imitation-learning policies for towel folding.

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Home lab bimanual setup with two SO-101 arms and overhead camera
Home lab

2025 →

Ongoing

Home Lab · Robot Learning

Home lab bimanual setup with SO-101 arms: SmolVLA, ACT, and Jetson edge deployment from data collection through inference.

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Custom power distribution PCB layout for the LiDAR SLAM upgrade
LiDAR odometry

2024 · Post-thesis

LiDAR SLAM Upgrade

LiDAR odometry with Unitree L1 and Jetson, custom power PCB, vibration fixes (counterweight + TPU mount), and stable scans in flight.

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Simulink Student Challenge 2024 — The Cookie Monster
Robot Arm · Simulink 2024

2024

Simulink Student Challenge · The Cookie Monster

MathWorks Simulink Student Challenge entry — model-based simulation project demonstrated in Simulink with competition submission videos.

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Autonomous drone in flight
Autonomous flight

2022–2023

Autonomous Drone · Matura Thesis

Engineered, constructed, and programmed a fully autonomous drone with Pixhawk 4 + Raspberry Pi and LiDAR obstacle avoidance—no cameras, to preserve privacy. Validated in AirSim then on hardware. Written in C++.

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Background

Experience

Work // industry & club

Software · Robot Learning Division
ETH Robotics Club · ETH Hanger, Dübendorf · Freelance/Part-time
Sep 2025 – Jun 2026
  • Self-collision detection for bimanual manipulators
  • Inverse dynamics control replacing inverse kinematics control
  • Imitation-learning policies for towel folding
Robotics Engineer
Swiss Robotics & Advanced Technologies · Part-time
Sep 2024 – Jun 2026
  • Remote controller app with video, LiDAR, and sensing visualization
  • C++ backend on the drone
  • Integrated multiple sensing payloads
Junior Robotics Engineer
Swiss Robotics & Advanced Technologies · Full-time · Winterthur
Mar–Aug 2024
  • Hardware and software for a fully actuated inspection drone with modular NDT payloads for confined-space environments
Software Developer
Studentlab AG · Part-time · Winterthur
Apr 2023 – Mar 2024
  • Two applications for in-house microcontroller firmware over LoRa
  • Documentation for LoRaWAN end-device source code
  • ToF sensor evaluation and integration for new device features
Civil Service
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL · Birmensdorf
Mar–Apr 2026
Civil Service
Kantonsspital Winterthur
Sep 2023 – Mar 2024

Education // academic

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
ETH Zürich
2024 → 2027
Bilingual Matura · English/German
Kantonsschule Rychenberg · Winterthur
2017 → 2023
  • Matura thesis: fully autonomous drone with LiDAR navigation
Core Team Member · youNGW
Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Winterthur
May 2023 →
  • Organizing natural-science events for younger generations in Winterthur (youNGW), part of the largest Swiss natural-science society

Languages: German (native) · English (C2) · French (B2) · Italian (B2)

Recognition

Awards & Honors