Reports

Teams from the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), University Hospital Hradec Kralove (FN HK), Palacky University Olomouc (UPOL) and University of Defence (UNOB) are collaborating on a unique project called TERESA (TEleREhabilitation Self-training Assistant), which will enable the rehabilitation of patients with persistent effects of COVID-19 in the home environment. At the same time, patients will be able to share data on their physical activity with their doctors through personal wearable devices. Patients with other respiratory diseases could also use the system in the future.

A student team working at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) under the leadership of Jan Šedivý has advanced to the finals of the Alexa Prize Social Bot Grand Challenge, announced for the fourth time by Amazon. It will become clear during August whether the team will finally manage to win gold and beat the international competition. Team Alquist was awarded silver twice in previous editions and bronze in 2020.

Professor Miloš Nesládek and Dr. Michal Gulka from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Czech Technical University are the main authors of the paper "Room-temperature control and electrical readout of individual nitrogen-vacancy nuclear spins", published on 20 July, 2021 by the prestigious British scientific journal Nature Communications. The paper follows the previous work of the Czech-Belgian team published in 2019 in the American journal Science.

In June, a ten-member team of experts from CTU, University of Pardubice, VŠB-TUO and ČZU completed a CESNET Development Fund project focused on cybersecurity of public universities under the title "Creation of methodologies and documentation in the field of cybersecurity in the environment of higher education institutions". Its aim was to help other universities to implement the measures set out in the Cybersecurity Decree, which applies to universities as public authorities.

On 16 July, the seventh year of the Summer IT School for high school students was officially closed on the 10th floor of the CTU Rectorate. During the evening, teams composed of participants presented their projects they had worked on during the day-long hackathon. While working on the projects, the girls were supposed to capitalize on everything they had learned and learned from the IT world during the week at CTU.

The Coronation Hall of the castle in Kroměříž, the churches of St. Moritz in Olomouc, St. Nicholas in Prague and the grotto in Gorzanów, Poland, are just some of the monuments whose interiors have been explored by unmanned helicopters with on-board AI, or robotic drones, over the past four years. The Multirobotic Systems Group from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FEL) led by doc. Martin Saska made considerable progress in their development: the current ones can move autonomously in the interiors of buildings along a predetermined safe route while reacting to unexpected obstacles. This is a globally unique project called Dronument, where the technology records precious historical assets and assists conservationists in their restoration.

The student carsharing Uniqway, which has been operating all along despite the anti-epidemic restrictions in place, now brings a number of new features and innovations. The newly launched website www.studentskeleto.cz offers interesting and regularly updated tips for trips, not only in the Czech Republic, supplemented with lots of useful information. In addition, it is once again possible to go abroad with Uniqway cars. With the end of the semester, the service is also open to university graduates, who can continue their Uniqway journeys smoothly.

The Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering participated in the preparation of a week-long training course of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Czech Republic (MIC) called Mosaic. The course is intended primarily for employees of state and local government authorities who are involved in the preparation for the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic.

Roberta Bimbová from the Department of Physical Electronics, Ondřej Kubů from the Department of Physics and Tomáš Jakubec from the Department of Mathematics received the Dean's Prize of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FJFI) 2021 for the best diploma thesis.

Pierre Donat-Bouillud, Ph.D., a researcher at the Programming Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Information Technology, has submitted his project to the Horizon 2020 call for proposals and received the international Seal of Excellence award. The main objective of the call was to support human resources, mobility, further training and professional growth of researchers in the European Research Area through international and inter-sectoral mobility.