# Informatik Kolloquium: Artificial Touch: the Next Frontier for AI

Informatik Kolloquium: Artificial Touch: the Next Frontier for AI at BIM, Binzmühlestrasse 11, 8050 Zürich, Seminarraum 4-033, Thursday 12 November 2026, 17:15.

- Price: Free
- Venue: BIM, Binzmühlestrasse 11, 8050 Zürich, Seminarraum 4-033
- With: Aviv Tamar
- Go to page: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/studies/phd/colloquium/fall-2026.html

A public computer science talk in the colloquium series of the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich, held in English and requiring no registration. Behind the talk is Prof. Dr. Aviv Tamar of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, hosted by Prof. Dr. Giorgia Ramponi. Under the title "Artificial Touch: the Next Frontier for AI", it addresses artificial touch, for example in the context of medical palpation such as breast cancer detection, using learning information states, modularly designed soft objects, and the largest tactile dataset to date of over 800 hours. The colloquium is aimed at researchers, students and the interested public.

## Dates

- Thursday 12 November 17:15 — BIM, Binzmühlestrasse 11, 8050 Zürich, Seminarraum 4-033
- Friday 13 November 17:15 — BIM, Binzmühlestrasse 11, 8050 Zürich, Seminarraum 4-033

Written by a model, sources: [ifi.uzh.ch](https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/studies/phd/colloquium/fall-2026.html)

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