Reports

In the event of sudden cardiac arrest, immediate assistance is a matter of life and death. Yet only a fraction of Czechs know how to properly use an automated external defibrillator (AED) or where to find one. The “For the Love of the Heart” initiative, which was officially launched on April 8, 2026, offers a solution: it educates the public and expands the network of defibrillators to places where they can save the most lives.

CTU welcomed Ph.D. candidate Sonia Martin from Stanford University, whose May lecture at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE) focused on one of the central questions of sustainable mobility: how electric vehicles can be better integrated with the electricity grid. During her research stay, she also visited Škoda Auto, where questions of electromobility are playing out in practice. In this interview, she discusses vehicle-to-grid technology, the future of EV research, and why collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and industry matters.

On April 8, 2026, the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) hosted the fifth annual Automotive Day on the CTU campus in Prague’s Dejvice district, which saw the highest attendance in its history. The exhibition offered an overview of current mobility trends—from design and electromobility to autonomous technologies. The event was held under the auspices of Jakub Stárek, Mayor of Prague 6, and Prof. Michal Pěchouček, Rector of CTU.

The National Center for Transport 4.0 is being established at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague. It connects academia, industry, public administration, and local government, and supports the development of the digital economy in transportation and mobility. At the same time, it aims to accelerate the transfer of research into practice and contribute to the transformation of transportation toward data-driven, sustainable, and resilient mobility. Part of the center’s long-term vision is the creation of a national digital twin of transportation, which will enable comprehensive modeling of transportation and mobility in the Czech Republic and its integration with other sectors, such as energy, the environment, and urban planning.

What do wooden columns look like when exposed to a fire at 850 °C? How quickly does a fire engulf a baby stroller in a fire experiment? And what impact might this have on the evacuation of people from an apartment building? These and more than 200 other photographs from fire experiments, accompanied by popular science texts in both Czech and English, can be found in the book “The Power of Fire – Science Captured in Photography.” The project was developed in collaboration with specialists from the Department of Steel and Timber Structures at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU, where the main initiator, Ing. Jakub Šejna, Ph.D., the CTU University Center for Energy-Efficient Buildings (UCEEB), where a significant portion of the experimental research took place, and photographer Jiří Ryszawy from the CTU Computing and Information Center. The book is available in PDF format free of charge to interested parties.

The EU RoboRoyale and SensorBees projects, which aim to use Bio-Hybrid Technology for Ecosystem Resilience, have been awarded the prestigious Sustainability Leadership Recognition in Robotics at the European Robotics Forum 2026, recognizing its pioneering contribution to sustainable innovation at the intersection of robotics and ecological systems. The award was accepted by Tomáš Krajník from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Rectores Magnifici, Excellencies, Spectabiles, Honorabiles, esteemed Mr. Deputy Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, dear guests of this ceremonial gathering,

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.

Partners of the European project TechSocialcare met in Cluj, Romania, for the second interregional meeting aimed at shifting cooperation from analytical work toward practical proposals for the broader use of assistive technologies in social services. A key element of the programme was an expert workshop led by representatives of the University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings of the Czech Technical University in Prague (UCEEB CTU), focusing on the search for a common European framework for the standardisation of these technologies. Discussions addressed, among other topics, technical requirements, data sharing, security, and ethical aspects of the use of technologies in care.

The leadership of the Czech Technical University in Prague supports the call by the Council of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic, which is urging the Czech government and Parliament to halt the drafting of a bill on the registration of entities with foreign ties.