The Silicon Valley of Robotics Is in Zurich — But Where Do the Founders Work?

The Greater Zurich Area is increasingly being called the Silicon Valley of robotics. It's home to ABB Robotics, ANYbotics, NVIDIA's robotics teams, and NEURA Robotics, fed by one of the densest research landscapes in the world. 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. Yet one question rarely gets asked in this success story: where do all these teams actually work? Most still sit in generic office space never designed for the physical reality of robotics.

Switzerland channels 63% of all venture capital into deep tech, more than any other country, and hosts more than 230 VC-backed robotics startups, anchored by the ETH Zurich–EPFL corridor, Europe's leading robotics cluster. What this density of talent and capital lacked was a physical anchor point — a place where these teams could actually meet. Hardware teams consistently report the same frustrations: no space to test a robot without knocking into furniture, landlords uneasy about noise, no infrastructure for prototyping, no natural network of technical peers.

The Gallery, a next-generation Robotics Hub at Thurgauerstrasse 119 between Zurich Airport and Oerlikon, was built for exactly that reality — with flexible floor plans, real-world testing space, a working robotics community, and daylight-filled architecture. Positioned in the heart of the region's growing robotics district, it shortens the distance to international investors and to the ETH/EPFL talent pipeline alike. In a cluster increasingly seen as globally leading, physical proximity between teams becomes a competitive advantage in itself.