Capek would be surprised – A robot from CTU will take part in a competition for millions of dollars

Forbes magazine published comprehensively and with great interest about our SPOT robot and participation in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge with this headline. The whole journalist article you can read here Photo Petr Neugebauer, FEE CTU

Prof. Jiri Matas is the best rated computer scientist from the Czech Republic, CTU the best university

Prof. Jiří Matas je nejlépe hodnoceným informatikem z České republiky, ČVUT nejlepší univerzitou
The international Guide2Research evaluates successful computer science on the basis of their H-index, citations, and the number of documents in the DBLP database collected by May 10, 2021. The “Top Computer Scientists Ranking” includes all top computer scientists from the Czech Republic. The best rated is prof. Jiří Matas, Head of the Visual Recognition Group …read more

The four-legged SPOT will fortify the DARPA team

 Čtyřnohý SPOT posílí DARPA team
Approximately twenty-member team of robotics CTU-CRAS-NORLAB (Czech Technical University – Center for Robotics and Autonomous Systems – Northern Robotics Laboratory) will set off in the fall to the underground complex MegaCavern in Kentucky, USA to defend third place in the finals of the prestigious DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge, which will take place from 21 to …read more

Robot Spot in media

About the success of our robotics under the leadership of prof. Tomas Svoboda and plans with Spot robot informed the server E 15 , E 15 lI, Seznam Zprávy, feedit.cz, Lupa.cz, Tyden.cz, Parlamentnilisty.cz, czpravy.cz, Barrandov.tv, ČT24, casopisczechindustry.cz, svetchytre.cz, Právo – Trhy a ekonomika, Technickytydenik.cz, vtmzive.cz, nejbussiness.cz, czechcrunch.cz, strojirenstvi.cz

Testing of drones in the UAE desert in media

The media also reported on the project of testing a drone swarm in the UAE desert for humanitarian and rescue operations Strojírenství.cz Techfokus.cz Euro.cz Radio.cz Parlamentnilisty.cz Technickytydenik.cz Tech Magazín Sciencemag.cz Feedit.cz CT24.cz ČRo Radiožurnál Tojesenzace.cz Czpravy.cz 21stoleti.cz Deník Metro Lidové noviny Česká věda do světa Haló noviny ihned.cz Hospodářské noviny Svět chytře Epocha Plus Seznam.cz …read more

Czech Drone´s Nagano: We always want to win

Czech Drone´s Nagano: We always want to win
MRS group leader dr. Martin Saska gave an interview to Forbes magazine. About the experimental campaign in the United Arab Emirates, research and other projects of the group you can read here

Amazon Research Awards: Our researchers succeeded in the global competition

Amazon Research Awards: Naši výzkumníci obstáli v globální konkurenci
Artificial intelligence (AI) research got into the most prestigious society of 59 universities in 13 countries. Among the 101 scientists awarded the Amazon Research Award 2020 (ARA) by Amazon are prof. Jiří Matas from the Department of Cybernetics and prof. Jan Faigl from the Department of Computers. Professor Jiří Matas succeeded with the project Training …read more

Police against drones

Policie proti dronům
On May 7, 2021, Prima – Main News broadcast a report on how the police are looking for a way to destroy drones in case they endanger the health of people or their property. Martin Saska also contributed to the report. The report in Czech <a href="http://“>is here About it also informed Mlada Fronta Dnes …read more

Virtual friend with diabetes

Virtuální kamarád s cukrovkou
About the MyDiabetic application, which was developed by the AID group led by doc. Daniel Novák, informed server Pozitivní zprávy. You can read more on here This positive message presents also jsmekocky.cz and TV Seznam – Main News

Nature inspires drones: Robotics imitate the flight of a flock of birds

Drony inspirované přírodou: Robotici napodobují let hejna ptáků
In recent weeks, our researchers from the Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) group have been testing low-flying swarms of autonomous small multi-engine helicopters (drones) in the desert environment of the United Arab Emirates. A stabilized swarm of low-flying robots equipped with a neural network camera flies over the inhospitable terrain of the desert. It is ready to …read more
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