Lukáš Neumann awarded the prestigious GA ČR JUNIOR STAR grant

Lukáš Neumann awarded the prestigious GA ČR JUNIOR STAR grant
The Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR)  announced the results of the JUNIOR STAR 2024 projects. The highly selective tender is aimed at excellent early-career scientists coming to the Czech Republic from abroad or with significant international experience. With an exceptional funding amount of CZK 25 million for 5 years, the scientists will be able to …read more

Zuzana Kúkelová was awarded NEURON 2023 prize for promising scientists

Zuzana Kúkelová was awarded NEURON 2023 prize for promising scientists
Congratulations to Zuzana Kúkelová for her achievement! She is the laureate of the Neuron 2023 prize for promising scientists in the field of computer science. The prizes are awarded to Czech scientists for their scientific results and should be perceived as encouraging to their further work. An independent local Scientific Council selects the laureates in …read more

Robot dogs and drones as part of a security camera system?

Robot dogs and drones as part of a security camera system?
The Axis Demoshow meeting for about a hundred security managers and experts from major Czech companies and institutions took place on 21 September 2023 in the premises of the Všetice Farm near Benešov u Prahy. The programme included demonstrations of experimental systems assembled by teams led by Professor Tomáš Svoboda and Associate Professor Martin Saska …read more

Dominika Burešova’s achievement in the Global Undegraduate Awards

Dominika Burešova's achievement in the Global Undegraduate Awards
Congratulations to our student Dominika Burešová for her achievement!  Dominika was supervised by Prof. RNDr. Pavel Pták, DrSc, and worked as a part of Prof. Navara´s team. She was named Highly Commended in the Mathematics and Physics category in the prestigious Global Undergraduate Awards for 2023. The Global Undergraduate Awards (often referred to as the …read more

MRS Summer School: over 150 students learned to fly drones at FEE

MRS Summer School: over 150 students learned to fly drones at FEE
More than 150 students from a number of countries attended the 2023 Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems, where they learned how to program drones. The event took place from 3 to 6 July at the FEE building on Charles Square in Prague, and on 7 July it culminated with outdoor challenges on Císařský ostrov. During …read more

Tomáš Dlask is a winner of Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis

Tomáš Dlask is a winner of Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis
Congratulations to Tomáš Dlask for his achievement! He was announced as a winner of the Antonín Svoboda Award for the Best Ph.D. for Thesis defended in 2022. The Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics selects the best Ph.D. Thesis every year. The topic of PhD thesis falls within the scope of ČSKI’s scientific activities (cybernetics, …read more

Petr Švarný defended his Ph.D. Theses

Petr Švarný successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Perirobot space representations for safe human-robot interaction Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Matěj Hoffmann, Ph.D. Congratulations!

Interview with professor Matas about AI in podcast Peak.cz

Interview with professor Matas about AI in podcast Peak.cz
The interview was recorded only in Czech. Professor Jiří Matas talks about the development of AI in the Peak.cz podcast. “Any artificial intelligence that generates something has to know that it generated it, and it has to be able to answer to me: yes, I generated it,” she says of the AI ​​phenomenon. Artificial intelligence …read more

An increasing role of AI algorithms in search for effective cancer treatments

An increasing role of AI algorithms in search for effective cancer treatments
Artificial intelligence algorithms of scientists from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Olomouc help to accelerate the development of anticancer drugs. Artificial intelligence algorithms will play an increasing role in the search for effective cancer treatments. Machine learning methods can significantly reduce the time, effort …read more

Donation of 19 PCs to elementary school Králův Dvůr

Donation of 19 PCs to elementary school Králův Dvůr
Last year, the council of the Dept. of Cybernetics decided to reduce the number of PCs in both computer labs from 30 to 20. In each computer lab, we thus have 10 seats without computers which are popular among students who bring their own notebooks and who also appreciate free space on their desks. The …read more
Responsible person: Petra Rosická