At this year’s #ČESKObudoucnosti conference, our students achieved remarkable success.Jan Ševic was awarded Tech Talent of the Year, and Kamila Houšková was recognized as Top Student of the Year. They continue to build on their earlier accomplishments – earlier this year, they excelled in the international SVOČ competition, as previously reported on our website, at …
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Many Czech online news outlets have covered the story of the new tactical robot Helhest, named after the mythical three-legged horse from Danish mythology. The robot can reach speeds of up to 20 km/h, carry loads of up to 100 kg, and overcome half-meter obstacles. Its development is the result of a collaboration between Assoc. …
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According to international scientific rankings, computer science and robotics at FEE CTU rank among the top in Europe. The three highest-ranked Czech computer scientists are all affiliated with CTU. The highest-ranked Czech computer scientist has long been Prof. Jiří Matas CSRankings is widely recognized as a reputable and transparent resource for assessing research performance in …
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Students Jan Ševic, Dominika Burešová, and Kamila Houšková have placed third in the competition of Czech and Slovak university student’s research works in the field of mathematics, also known as the mathematical SVOČ ( https://jcmf.cz/?q=cz/node/775 , https://flurry.dg.fmph.uniba.sk/svoc2025/ ). In their work ‘Reichenbach’s causal completeness of quantum probability spaces’, they’ve answered a long-lasting open question in …
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Various labs and research groups from our department will participate in the event void* again this year. The void* event will take place on May 15, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Karlovo náměstí and will be held for the fourth time this year. Void* is primarily intended for second-year bachelor’s and first-year …
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Congratulations to the team, which won 2nd place in the category “InterSystems challenge: Best use of GenAI or FHIR using InterSystems technology” at the prestigious European Healthcare Hackathon. The event was attended by sixty of the most talented ethical hackers and was held from Friday, 7 to Sunday, 9 March at the Institute of Clinical …
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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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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 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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