Reports

The final of the CTU FEL Robotics Competition for secondary schools took place at Faculty of Electrical Engineering CTU in Prague on Friday 15 December and featured 36 of the best Lego robotic vehicles that advanced from 4 preliminary rounds and from a total of 168 "secondary school" robots. Historically, the most difficult task in the 15-year history of the competition was best accomplished by the teams SAKIRI from ISŠT Benešov (1st place), Rossum's Universal Robots from Gymnasium Na Vítězné pláni (2nd place) and Kachničky from Gymnasium Voděradská (3rd place and the Robot Design Award).

On Thursday 14 December, the best CTU athletes for 2023 received their awards from the hands of CTU Rector Vojtěch Petráček and representatives of the Institute for Physical Education and Sport, Deputy Director Jaroslav Schmid and Zdeněk Valjent, who is responsible for sports representation.

Is it possible to program a working computer game in 48 hours? The participants of the GameHack game development competition tried it out under the guidance of experts at FIT CTU in Prague on 17-19 November 2023.

On Tuesday, 12 December, the President of the Republic Petr Pavel and the Minister of Education Mikuláš Bek handed over the professorial decrees. Five people from CTU received them.

Even instruments from the laboratories of electrical engineers, robotics engineers and computer scientists can be turned into musical instruments. In their Christmas video, researchers from FEL CTU demonstrate this in an unconventional experiment by "tuning" their technology to the Christmas tune in the English carol We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

The Rector's Office of CTU hosted the presentation and opening ceremony of the Centre for Law, Finance and Technology (CeLFaT) of the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of CTU in Prague on Friday 8 December 2023.

Some modern broadband technologies commonly used in online or mobile communications are less able to transmit female voices than male voices. The findings were made by the team of Professor Jan Holub, who heads the Department of Measurement at Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The researchers applied a different calculation method than is commonly used in current tests of transmission technologies. According to the research, the difference in the transmission quality of the female voice is significant. The study resulted in formulation of a technical recommendation by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

Prime Minister Petr Fiala awarded the Karel Kramář Medal for merit in the field of culture, respect for human rights and freedoms, building a free democratic society, journalism and science and research. Among the seventeen honoured personalities is Prof. Michal Pěchouček, director and co-founder of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague.

For the fourth time, future paramedics from Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague draw attention with the event "Donate blood!" - mass blood donation at the Kladno Regional Hospital on 12 December 2023 - on the irreplaceability of human blood and the shortage of donors.

Czech Technical University in Prague, together with Prague public universities associated in the Study in Prague consortium, has awarded an extraordinary scholarship of Prof. Miroslav Vlček to five foreign students. The award ceremony took place on 5 December 2023 at the Mayor's Residence on Mariánské náměstí square.