Reports

Last week, a regular meeting focused on the strategic topics of digitalisation in ŠKODA AUTO Production and Logistics took place at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU). On this occasion, members of the ŠKODA AUTO Board of Directors, Dr. Michael Oeljeklaus and Christian Schenk, together with forty experts from the fields of production and logistics, quality management, finance and IT, were introduced to selected projects that are currently underway at the CIIRC CTU and are related to the automotive industry. During a two-hour tour of the Testbed for Industry 4.0, the scientific teams presented them with concrete research results using the latest technologies available at the RICAIP Centre of Excellence.

Although the Czech Republic has neither a spaceport nor a sea, it has been among the world leaders in simulating space missions for three years now.

In the first half of June, the V4 Innovation Challenge Day took place at the Innovation Centre of the University of Debrecen, Hungary, with the subtitle Military Autonomous Systems. Thanks to the initiative of the Ministry of Defence, the Czech Republic was represented by a team from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, which presented its wheeled robot with an autonomous navigation system.

At its 28th General Assembly on 17 May 2022, the Learned Society of the Czech Republic elected Professor Jiří Matas from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague as a full member.

The jury of the Břetislav Štorm Award selected the best works in the field of conservation. The student projects reflect different approaches to the reconstruction of heritage buildings and also intervene in the professional debate. The award-winning thesis became part of the documentation for the nomination of Žatecko region to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Brazil, Mexico, the United States of America, South Korea, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, India, Nigeria, Australia and many European countries, including the Czech Republic.

The European Commission recognises outstanding researchers or engineers who have come up with innovative ideas or proposed new solutions in the field of nuclear energy through the Nuclear Innovation Prize. This year, the MultiProtectFuel project of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FJFI), led by Martin Ševeček from the Department of Nuclear Reactors (KJR), won first place in the reactor system safety category and a €50,000 prize.

The cypress garden called Acrobat, designed by students from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University, is one of 24 projects that are being presented at the largest garden festival in Europe this year. The gardens will be on display in Chaumont-on-the-Loire until November.

In July, the Rector's Office of the CTU in Prague organized an experiential suburban camp for children from families of Ukrainian students and CTU staff. The camp, titled Science for Children, was held with the support of the Rector of doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc. and the management of the faculties and units of CTU, under the auspices of the Vice-Rector for Foreign Relations prof. Ing. Oldřich Starý, CSc. The event was attended by 31 children aged 8-14 years.

EuROBIN is a network of excellence that brings together European expertise in robotics and artificial intelligence and establishes a single pan-European platform for research and development. For the first time, a large number of leading research labs across Europe, including the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU), are coming together to jointly develop AI-based robotics. The objectives of the project include both making significant scientific advances in key issues of intelligent robotics and strengthening the scientific robotics community in Europe by providing an integrative community platform. The network is open to the entire robotics community and provides cascading funding mechanisms to increase the number of members in the coming years.