Technology makes sense when it enables people to do things better, more safely or differently than they would be able to on their own. This is what the joint exhibition of the National Centre for Industry 4.0 (NCP 4.0) and its partners will demonstrate at this year’s International Industrial Fair (MSV) in Brno. From October 6 to 9, as part of Digital Factory 2.0, under the shared claim United by Innovation, they will present technologies and services that connect people with robots, artificial intelligence and data. Visitors will see, for example, human-robot collaboration with a humanoid robot, digital twins of machines and entire companies, the industrial metaverse, 5G communication, technologies for industrial AI, and will be able to try out a massage robot or a smart car.

The Czech team F4F & CTU SkyGraph was a great success in the finals of the Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0 competition of the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovations SPRIND. In competition with seven European technology teams, they demonstrated a system that can take an instruction formulated in ordinary human language, convert it into a flight plan and fulfill it without GPS and manual control. The competition tasks simulated real-life use, for example, in a delivery service, during a rescue operation or in a security control room. It was in the task of "find and help an injured person" that the F4F & CTU SkyGraph team won over the European drone elite. The fourteen-month competition had a budget of over 5 million euros and each of the final teams received a grant of 500,000 euros for the development of the system.

Tonagena, a technology spin-off from the Czech Technical University in Prague, won the Techsauce Innovation Award at this year’s Techsauce Global Summit in Bangkok and was named one of just eight winners this year.

260-PFLOPS Cluster Supports Neurodegeneration Research and the Development of Assistive Robotics The Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU), in cooperation with the International Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Center (INDRC), has completed the development of new computing infrastructure for the CLARA Centre of Excellence. The new GPU cluster, with computing performance of up to 260 PFLOPS, represents the largest institutional installation of specialised computing capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the Czech Republic over the past year. It is now fully operational and is currently being used primarily in two areas. The first is the development of AI models that help researchers understand the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases and identify compounds that could influence them. The second is the development of AI methods for robotics, with a focus on assistive technologies for people affected by neurodegenerative disorders.

The new school year was officially opened, and the children were welcomed, by the school’s headteacher, Ilona Ali Bláhová, and the Chancellor of the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT), Romana Pikulová. This time, the event took place at the CIIRC building, as it included the opening of an exhibition of drawings created by the children from Lvíčata.