Why Switzerland's Robotics Industry Finally Needs the Right Space

Since 2020, Switzerland has generated roughly 3.5 times more venture-funded robotics startups per capita than the United States, and five times more than the United Kingdom. That's not a marketing claim — it's a data point showing up in nearly every serious deep tech report published this year. What's missing is physical infrastructure that matches that momentum. Most robotics founders are still working out of generic office space never designed for building, testing, and rebuilding machines.

Switzerland channels 63% of all venture capital into deep tech, the highest share of any country in the world, and hosts more than 230 VC-backed robotics startups, anchored by the ETH Zurich–EPFL corridor, Europe's leading robotics cluster. Teams coming out of these labs need workspace that reflects that seriousness, not offices built for laptops instead of hardware. Ask any hardware founder about their office lease and the same complaints surface: no space to test a robot without knocking into desks, landlords uneasy about noise or dust, zero infrastructure for prototyping, no peer group solving similar problems.

The Gallery, a next-generation Robotics Hub at Thurgauerstrasse 119 between Zurich Airport and Oerlikon, was built to close exactly that gap — with flexible, scalable floor plans, real-world testing space, a working robotics community, and daylight-filled architecture built for focus. Positioned inside the Greater Zurich Area, often called the Silicon Valley of robotics, it sits minutes from Zurich Airport and the ETH/EPFL talent pipeline. You cannot remote-work a torque test — proximity to talent, investors, and peer companies remains a genuine competitive advantage.

Book a tour of The Gallery at Thurgauerstrasse 119 and see what a workspace built specifically for robotics looks like.