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Success of CTU-CRAS’ robots in US in Main evening news, Czech TV

Sep

12

2019

It doesn’t happen every day that you appear in the main evening broadcasting at Czech TV (Česká televize). It does for example when you win DARPA SubT Challenge among self-funded teams. Amazing success of ČVUT FEL team CTU-CRAS formed by our teams Multi-robot Systems (Martin Saska) and Vision for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Tomáš Svoboda) and colleagues …read more

Tomas Jenicek and Ondra Chum in MIT Technology Review

Sep

12

2019

The work of Tomas Jenicek and Ondra Chum Linking Art trhought Human Poses is discussed in MIT Technology Review article Machine vision can spot unknown links between classic artworks. Congratulations!

Tomas Jenicek and Ondra Chum in Analytics India magazine

Aug

8

2019

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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).