Reports

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.

The Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University is expanding its teaching team with personalities from European academic and professional backgrounds. In the winter semester 2026/27, the studios will be led by Belgian architect Dirk Somers, Dutch landscape architects Maike van Stiphout and Zuzana Jančovičová, and the Berlin duo Giulia Biondi and Nicolas Fajt. They will bring topics and approaches based on practice, research, and experience from leading European universities.

How does a young child learn that the movement of his hand can change the world around him? And what is happening in his brain? An international team of scientists from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU, Universität Hamburg and Université Paris Cité searched for answers using the humanoid robot iCub. The results of the experiments, which provide a new insight into the mechanisms of early learning, are now published in Science Robotics, the most prestigious scientific journal in the field of robotics.

The Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering (FJFI) of the Czech Technical University is adding up the first savings it has achieved thanks to the EPC project from the company ENESA from the ČEZ ESCO holding. One of the oldest technical universities in Europe will save almost 4 million crowns annually thanks to the modernization of two buildings in Prague and one in Děčín. Energy consumption in the buildings will be reduced by a total of 1,200 MWh per year, i.e. by more than a quarter. In conjunction with previous EPC projects, the entire Czech Technical University saves over 25 million crowns on energy every year.

The Quantum Innovation Center (QIC) is the only Czech node in the IBM Quantum Network, a global network of more than 275 organizations. Led by the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), it connects eight Czech academic and research institutions and opens direct access to IBM's most powerful quantum systems – all to build expertise in quantum technologies, prove their practical value, and strengthen the state’s resilience to external threats. Over its first year of operation, it has grown into a functioning ecosystem with dozens of ongoing research projects, hundreds of people trained, and quantum hardware in genuine use.

How to turn a real problem into an innovative solution? The international student competition Collider connects students across disciplines, universities and European countries. It develops entrepreneurship, innovative thinking and the ability to solve real challenges – and shows what the future of European education could look like.