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RICAIP: Research and Innovation Centre on Advanced Industrial Production is a two phase project under European Union’s Horizon 2020 call WIDESPREAD-04-2017-Teaming. The project coordinator and also the the principal investigator at CTU is Prof. Vladimír Mařík. The Phase 1 of the project No. 763559 had the aim to formulate the project proposal for the actual RICAIP project in its...
On the last day of October students as well as companies had an opportunity to visit Testbed for Industry 4.0 in CIIRC CUT and view the experimental space of the smart factory of the future, try out augmented and virtual reality, hear interesting lectures, visit workshops and least but not the last establish new business contacts with partners of...
Watch the talk by David Fouhey (University of Michigan) entitled "Understanding how to get to places and do things" that took place at CIIRC. The lecture was organized by the IMPACT project The whole video available here Abstract: What does it mean to understand an image or video? One common answer in computer vision has been that understanding means naming things: this part of the image...
You can watch the movie here: https://movies.alquistai.com/ Students from CTU and Charles University from the Alquist team, in collaboration with Rebel &Glory and CoFilm, created the very first experimental movie which can be controlled by the viewer’s voice. “The Story of Alquist” connects the latest technology with the film production to create an innovative and interactive experience for the audience....
The five-month turbulence in the CIIRC CTU has finally led to an optimistic outlook. The rector of the Czech Technical University, doc. Vojtěch Petráček, and the management of the CIIRC CTU agreed on a compromise solution that was settled with the help of the Government of the Czech Republic. The new position of the Scientific Director was created and...
Joint mission of European Union and European Commission visited the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics on Thursday October 25 with the aim to learn more about the functioning of the Institute and the National Centre for Industry 4.0. The delegation which included ambassadors from several European countries, highest EC representatives in charge of research, development and digitalization areas...
A group of students including  Martin Vajnar, Jaroslav Klapálek, David Kopecký, Anders Pederson, Jan Bednář, Jiří Vlasák, Philipp Swartvagher, Jiří Zahora, Jan Skála, Petr Frantal, Jiří Kerner and Joel Matějka headed by Michal Sojka and Zdeněk Hanzálek from Industrial Informatics Department CIIRC won 3. place in the international competition F1/10 AUTONOMOUS RACING COMPETITION. It is an autonomous car model F1 competition that took...
The student team Alquist under the leadership of Ing. Jan Šedivý from CIIRC will participate once again in the finals of the Alexa Prize, a competition held for the second time by American online-market giant Amazon. As in the previous year, chatbot Alquist won the first place in the semifinals. The goal of the global university competition is to...
The good news for CIIRC CTU was announced on October 19, 2018. The proposal National Center of Competence Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence succeeded in the call National Centers of Competence by Technology Agency (TAČR) of the Czech Republic. The proposal is lead by CIIRC CTU. Its principal investigator is Prof. Vladimír Mařík. The project partners are CertiCon a.s.; Continental Automotive...
Professor Hanzalek’s team from CIIRC CTU in Prague collaborates with SKODA AUTO on the development of embedded systems used in integration test of new SKODA cars since the year 2017. Collaboration focuses on autonomous cars infrastructure and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Dr. Sojka, Ing. Procházka and Ing. Vajnar developer an engine simulator integrated into a breadboard in our...