On Thursday, January 22, 2026, CIIRC hosted the annual CACORR – CIIRC Annual Colloquium on Research Results, which traditionally serves as a platform for bringing together the institute’s research departments and teams, presenting achieved results, and strengthening collaboration across CIIRC. The programme of the colloquium focused on an overview of the most significant research activities and on discussion of the institute’s further strategic direction.
The colloquium was opened by an introductory address from CIIRC’s Scientific Director, Vladimír Mařík, who reviewed the results of the past year and outlined the strategic outlook for the institute’s future development. He recalled the very positive international evaluation confirming CIIRC’s excellence at the national level and emphasized the need to move from isolated partial results towards integrated, breakthrough projects with international impact.
In this context, he introduced the LMI – Leaders, Monuments, Impact strategy, which emphasizes the systematic development of strong scientific leaders, support for their visibility, and their ability to formulate ambitious goals. The strategy aims at creating visible, “monumental” results with real impact on science, industry, and society. Vladimír Mařík also highlighted the role of institute leadership and effective communication towards both the expert community and the wider public in presenting CIIRC’s top-level research outcomes.
The programme then continued with presentations by individual research departments and teams, showcasing their key results, current projects, and research activities.
In the morning session, the Cognitive Systems and Neurosciences (COGSYS) and Biomedical Engineering and Assistive Technology (BEAT) departments presented outstanding results in the areas of neuroscience, medical data, intelligent healthcare systems, and rehabilitation support, including publications in leading international journals.
This was followed by the Intelligent Systems (INTSYS) department, which presented results of both applied and basic research in artificial intelligence, knowledge graphs, optimization of industrial processes, and collaboration with public administration and industrial partners. The block also included concrete examples of AI deployment in practice, such as in the automotive industry and urban services.
A separate block was devoted to the Department of Research Management of Platforms (PLAT), Testbed, and RICAIP. Within PLAT, results of fundamental research in systems theory and automatic control were presented, published in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. This was followed by an overview of the RICAIP project and of the activities of the Testbed, which provides infrastructure for experimental and applied research. The block also included significant results in computer vision, focusing on 3D reconstruction and precise object pose estimation, presented at the international WACV conference.
The Industrial Informatics (IID) department focused on advanced methods for planning, optimization, decision-making, and control of complex systems, including results published at leading conferences in artificial intelligence and operations research.
The afternoon programme featured an extensive block by the Robotics and Machine Perception (RMP) department, which presented an exceptionally strong portfolio of results in robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and multimodal models. The presented works were published at top-tier international conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, and NeurIPS.
This was followed by the Artificial Intelligence (AIF) department, which showcased results in research automation, logical reasoning, verification, work with large language models, and the development of tools for solving complex mathematical and AI-related problems.
The final expert block was presented by the Industrial Production and Automation (IPA) department, which showcased results in robotic manipulation, mechatronics, additive manufacturing, and optimization of manufacturing processes, including experimentally validated industrial applications.
Overall, CACORR 2026 offered a comprehensive overview of CIIRC’s research activities and confirmed the institute’s exceptionally broad expertise—from fundamental research through applied development to direct collaboration with industry.
We would like to thank Professor Zdeněk Hanzálek for organizing the colloquium and all participants for their active involvement and valuable contributions.
