Reports

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.

The awards ceremony took place on Wednesday, March 11, with scientists from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering receiving awards on behalf of CTU.

The Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague (FBME) has created and continues to develop a YouTube channel called NURSING PROCEDURES, supported by CTU projects, which currently contains 47 professional educational videos on nursing and medical procedures. The videos are filmed in a real hospital environment and their production continues on an ongoing basis. The platform serves as a practical supplement to teaching and professional literature and has long attracted the interest of students and the professional public.

Bc. Erol Medenčević, a first-year student in the Open Informatics master's programme at FEE CTU, was successful with his thesis on the visualisation of artificial intelligence agent behaviour at the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) international conference, which took place from 20 to 27 January 2026 in Singapore. The resulting PANSim project was presented as part of the demo track of this prestigious conference, which is one of the highest-rated in the field of artificial intelligence.

On March 5, 2026, the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, specifically the Department of Health Sciences and Civil Protection, hosted a meeting with leading European security experts as part of the Czech Republic's assessment in the field of Disaster Risk Management (DRM), focusing on the topics of Disaster Risk Governance, Risk Assessment, DRM Planning, and Preparedness.