How can we compare robots that are expected to move flexibly, safely, and energy-efficiently in dynamic environments? A new international study titled A Benchmarking Framework for Embodied Neuromorphic Agents, published in the prestigious journal Nature Machine Intelligence, offers an answer. Researchers from institutions in Czechia, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Pakistan, and Singapore present …
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Two dissertation defenses by students from the MRS group took place in one day at the Department of Cybernetics. Václav Pritzl successfully defended his dissertation: Cooperative Multi-UAV Navigation in GNSS-Denied Environments, and Petr Štibinger subsequently defended his dissertation: Perception-Driven Autonomy for Mobile Robots in Hazardous Environments. Both were awarded the Ph.D. degree in the Computer …
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An international team of scientists has published a study in the prestigious journal Nature Communications showing that the brains of children born with an upper limb difference undergo significant reorganisation from an early age. Scientists Matěj Hoffmann a Zdeněk Straka from the humanoid group participated in the research, developing a computational model explaining the mechanism …
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Congratulations to Jakub Rozlivek and his supervisor, Matěj Hoffmann, for their extraordinary achievement in this year’s Werner von Siemens Awards! Jakub received the award in the category Best Doctoral Thesis in Industry 4.0. The award-winning doctoral thesis by Jakub Rozlivek, titled Perception and Safety in Close-Proximity Human–Robot Interaction, is motivated by one of the key challenges …
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Interview with prof. Matas on DVTV with Martin Veselovský- only in Czech.
Best Paper Award for paper SAM-pose2seg: Pose-Guided Human Instance Segmentation in Crowds was awarded to Constantin Kolomiiets, Miroslav Purkrabek, Jiri Matas at the CVWW 2026 conference.
Ruslan Agishev successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Physics-informed differentiable traversability models in robotics, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the Computer Science doctoral study program. Supervisor: doc. Ing. Karel Zimmermann, Ph.D. Congratulations!
The Dean’s Awards for prestigious dissertations were awarded on the 14th of January at the Scientific Council meeting. Researcher Vojtěch Čermák from VRG group was awarded for his work Fine-grained recognition of animals in the wild under the supervision of Lukáš Neumann and Lukáš Adam. Vojtěch defended his Thesis in June 2025 and received the …
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Illia Volkov, a student of the Bachelor’s program in Open Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL), received the Stanislav Hanzl Award for talented CTU students. The award-winning work was carried out under the supervision of Ing. Klára Janoušková and Prof. Jiří Matas from the Visual Recognition Group (VRG). Volkov achieved a significant milestone …
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The FACIS project received the 2025 Minister of the Interior Award for outstanding achievements in the field of security research. The project impressed the evaluation committee primarily with its potential for immediate practical deployment. It comprises a suite of forensic image and video analysis tools designed for use by the criminal police and investigative services. …
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