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Interview with Martin Saska about DARPA Subterranean Challenge in Czech Television

May

22

2019

The DARPA SubT Challenge seeks novel approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments during time-sensitive combat operations or disaster response scenarios.

Interview with prof. Chang-hee (Andy) Won, Ph.D.

Feb

12

2019

From February to July 2019, prof. Chang-hee Won of Temple University in Pennsylvania, USA will be visiting CTU as a holder of the Fulbright-CTU Distinguished Chair fellowship. His professional interests include sensors and image processing and advanced control theory. His host will be prof. Jan Kybic from the Department of Cybernetics of the Faculty of …read more

The little android with a sense of touch

Jun

6

2018

A typical feature of mammals lies in their ability to experience sensations, something that robots are beginning to imitate. With the help of artificial skins and algorithms, our researchers have managed to make a small humanoid robot aware of human contact and even notice if someone is invading his ‘living’ space. The little android with …read more

James Pritts (CMP) recently sat down for an interview with “Hospodarske noviny” newspaper, where he discussed self-driving vehicles

Mar

28

2018

Our colleague, Ing. James Brandon Pritts, from the Visual Recognition Group spoke on the topic: Self-driving cars safety. For more information [in Czech], see the article in Hospodarske noviny. Thanks for the representation of our faculty.

Tomas Sixta and Boris Flach published their research in “Nature Communications”

Feb

12

2018

Ing. Tomas Sixta and doc. Boris Flach published the article “Polarized actin and VE-cadherin dynamics regulate junctional remodelling and cell migration during sprouting angiogenesis” in prestiguous “Nature Communications“. The research studies mechanisms of endothelial cells while creating new blood vessels. Congratulations!

The project RobotBodySchema has become a Partnering project of the Human Brain Project

Feb

12

2018

The project RobotBodySchema (or “Robot self-calibration and safe physical human-robot interaction inspired by body representations in primate brains”), investigated by the team of Mgr. Matej Hoffmann, Ph.D., became a Partnering project of the Human Brain Project. Congratulations!

Our robots (MRS group) help map historical objects

Dec

21

2017

In Novinky.cz has been published an interresting article (in Czech language) „Drony z ČVUT pomáhají odkrývat dlouholetá tajemství” (More videos and articles about this topic you can find at the end of this website.) Many thanks for the representation of our department!

Olga Stepankova and Jiri Matas as a guests of the discussion “Souvislosti Jana Pokorneho” at Czech TV

Oct

12

2017

Prof. Olga Stepankova and prof. Jiri Matas were guests of the discussion “Souvislosti Jana Pokorneho” at the Czech Television on the topic: Artificial Intelligence (the discussion is in Czech language only).

Ing. Kubelka presented a rescue mobile robot Charlie in Czech TV

Oct

6

2017

Ing. Vladimir Kubelka, a PhD. student of Artificial inteligence and biocybernetics, presented a rescue mobile robot Charlie, which is involved in project TRADR, and invited the viewers to the “Night of scientists“(in czech only) in Studio 6, a Czech TV morning show. Many thanks for the representation of our faculty!

Jiří Trefný was a guest of the Studio 6 of the CT on the topic: Face detection at the airports

Jul

25

2017

Ing. Jiří Trefný (Visual Recognition Group) was a guest of the Studio 6 of the Czech Television where he spoke on the topic: Face detection at the airports (the interview is in Czech language only).