Reports

With a six-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, student carsharing Uniqway celebrated its third birthday. The service, created and run by students, first launched on 17 October 2018 and within three and a half years had expanded its fleet to 36 vehicles - a ŠKODA FABIA, a SCALA and an electric CITIGOe iV. Since the beginning, the service has been available to students and employees of partner universities, including the Czech Technical University in Prague. Since last year, Uniqway services have also been available to their graduates. More than 6,000 users have already signed up for the service, with more than 1,000,000 km driven collectively.

Ten student teams from five European schools of architecture worked on conceptual visions of development for the Strahov Hill area. The Future of Strahov Hill workshop took place in April at the Faculty of Architecture. The projects are intended to start a discussion about the brief for the planned architectural competition for the future design of the world's largest stadium.

Last week, a total of 85 teams from all over the Czech Republic competed in the 3-day FEL CTU Robotics Competition for the 2nd grade of primary schools and the corresponding classes of multi-year grammar schools. Each competition day determined one champion. The teams kepLErGO, Lasy Brick and PDV Crew then competed in a live televised superfinal on Tuesday 3 May. This determined the final winner, which was the PDW Crew team.

In April, a guided walk around the Lesser Town was held for Ukrainian mothers with children, the relatives of CTU students staying in the dormitories at Strahov.

After two and a half years of construction, a unique experimental laboratory, the largest of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, was inaugurated on 28 April 2022 at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU). Testbed for Industry 4.0 is a research infrastructure that is being built at CTU thanks to a significant investment of EU and Czech funds within the RICAIP centre. Thanks to this, Czech industry has access to the latest scientific knowledge and applications for advanced manufacturing and modern factories of the 21st century. On this occasion, cooperation with the German Fraunhofer Institute IWU and the University of Ostrava VŠB-TUO was signed in the presence of government representatives.

The robotic competition, organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, was also attended by the youngest generation educated at CTU - pupils of the Lvíčata (Lion Cubs) primary school established by the university. And they certainly didn't lose their way!

Prof. Pavel Exner was elected a member of the Mathematical Section of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). This non-governmental, non-profit and independent organization brings together almost a thousand scientists working in Europe, including ten from the Czech Republic.

As part of the expanding cooperation of the Czech Technical University in Prague with universities around the world, Rector Vojtěch Petráček was visited today by representatives of the University of Health Sciences and the Institute of Technology Cambodia.

Out of 1161 students from grammar schools and vocational secondary schools across the Czech Republic, 71 high school students competing in teams of up to three advanced to the finals of the first year of the Technology Olympics. The Technology Olympics aims to contribute to a better understanding of the trends that drive the world today and to inspire their study.

Three in ten computer users experience tingling or tingling in their wrists and impaired sensitivity in their fingers when working on the computer. The discomfort and pain may be related to carpal tunnel syndrome. Bc. Tomáš Trejdl from the Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction at the Open Information Department of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, together with Vasil Kostin from the 3rd Faculty of Medicine, are persuing a technological innovation that can help prevent this disease. They have developed a special smart mouse pad that took them to the world final of the Red Bull Basement competition in Istanbul in early March.