A team from MRS CTU and Fly4Future has successfully demonstrated a drone capable of understanding natural-language instructions, planning its own mission and executing it fully autonomously — without GPS or pilot intervention. The F4F & CTU SkyGraph team took part in the final of Germany’s SPRIND Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0 competition, competing against seven European technology …
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The Humanoid Group, led by Assoc. Prof. Matěj Hoffman, is celebrating a significant scientific achievement – their latest research has been published in the prestigious journal Science Robotics. The study, which uses the humanoid robot iCub, offers new insights into how young children learn to recognize the relationship between their own movements and their effects …
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Professor Jiří Matas has been awarded the 2026 IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize, one of the most prestigious international awards in the field of pattern recognition. The prize, awarded by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), recognizes Prof. Matas for seminal contributions to evidence aggregation in geometric computer vision. Prof. Matas received the award at …
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Congratulations to our two colleagues who were awarded the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance in the winter semester 2025/2026. Ing. Jakub Paplhám received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching Performance in the “tutor” category, and RNDr. Petr Štěpán, Ph.D. was recognized for his Long-term Outstanding Teaching at FEL. Teachers are awarded for teaching results …
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Filipe Gama successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, Learning body representations through self-touch: from babies to robots, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Computer Science. Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Matěj Hoffmann Ph.D Congratulations!
Ihor Varha successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Fusion of Imaging and Electrophysiology Measurements for Deep Brain Surgery, and was awarded the Ph.D. title in the doctoral study program Bioengineering. Supervisor: doc. Ing. Daniel Novák, Ph.D. Supervisor specialist: Ing. Eduard Bakštein, Ph.D Congratulations!
ČT Události – Drones for Critical Infrastructure Protection The Czech Television report presents research by the Multi-robot Systems Group at CTU FEE, where we test autonomous drones in real-world conditions. The system is inspired by bird flocks – drones make decisions independently based on information from their neighbors, without the need for central control. It …
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The Colloquium in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision is a biannual event with a rich tradition dating back to 1998. This esteemed gathering is jointly organized by the Visual Recognition Group and the Department of Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and enjoys the generous support of the Czech Pattern Recognition Society (CPRS). The technical program is …
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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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