Dr. Giulia D’Angelo, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow from the Humanoid group, has received the Le Tecnovisionarie® 2025 International Award. Giulia leads the ENDEAVOR project, which leverages neuromorphic computing and event-driven cameras to design energy-efficient, real-time active vision systems for robotic applications. Her research bridges neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and robotics, and is inspired by how the human …
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The Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague is celebrating a decade of pioneering research in autonomous drone technology. Led by Assoc. Prof. Martin Saska, the Multi-robot Systems (MRS) group has achieved numerous world-firsts, solidifying its international reputation for groundbreaking innovations. Here are the key milestones in MRS CTU FEE’s …
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The Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU in Prague (FEL CTU) has once again demonstrated its excellence in scientific research and education. Students and academic staff of the faculty have achieved outstanding success in the prestigious Werner von Siemens Award 2024 competition. This prestigious program annually recognizes the best scientific and technical work by talented …
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Bill Psomas, a post doc at VRG, has been awarded the prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 for his project RAVIOLI (Retrieval-Augmented VIsion-Language Models for Open-vocabulary LocalizatIon). Hosted at the Visual Recognition Group (VRG) under the supervision of associate Prof. Giorgos Tolias, RAVIOLI aims to advance open-vocabulary segmentation by integrating retrieval-based predictions with vision-language models. The project seeks to enhance segmentation accuracy …
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Teams from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL) at the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) are involved in the development of new robotic and AI technologies for future industrial applications as part of the ROBOPROX project. This extensive project, funded by the Czech Ministry of Education with a total budget of over 467 million …
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Czech scientists are working to improve robots – this was the title of a segment on the main Czech Television news program Události on December 11. The broadcast link is here, and the segment begins at 50:12. Matěj Hoffmann and Jakub Rozlivek discussed their experiment, which involves playing a board game with the humanoid robot …
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The Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) awarded Ing. Tomáš Báča, Ph.D. the prestigious JUNIOR STAR grant. This program is designed for excellent early-career researchers within eight years of obtaining their Ph.D., who have already achieved significant success in the scientific community. Tomáš Báča impressed with his project TOMSNAV (Topological Multi-modal and Semantic Navigation for Aerial Vehicles), …
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The Czech Technical University will collaborate with Lockheed Martin on the research and development of a highly maneuverable unmanned vehicle. Researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL) at the Czech Technical University (CTU) and experts from the Czech Aerospace Research Centre will work together with the global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin to …
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The Multi-robot Systems Group (MRS) in a cooperation with Fly4Future, an official spin-out of CTU, has won the SPRIND Funke Fully Autonomous Flight competition. In the final, which took place from 16th to 20th September 2024 at the Erding Air Base in Germany, the Czech team beat 8 other teams from all over the world. …
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The “LUSt: Learning a Universal Similarity Function” project has been funded under Horizon Europe and will run for two years (2025-2026). This grant supports a postdoctoral fellowship at CTU in Prague with Giorgos Tolias as an advisor and a collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and assistant professor Pascal Mettes. The project’s objective is to perform research on similarity learning …
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