Students from CTU, led by Jan Šedivý (CIIRC), participated in the final of The Alexa Prize. The goal was to develop the best chatbot working with the smart Amazon Echo device.
The announcement of the absolute winner was held on 28.11.2017 at the traditional technical conference of the Amazon named re:INVENT in Las Vegas. The Czech team brought home the second...
The article about CIIRC and Industry 4.0 was released in January in the Reseller Magazine.
Read full article here (Czech only):
Reseller Magazine - CIIRC
The young scientist, Filip Masri, has broken through and succeeded in bringing awareness of the Czech Republic to the global IT center of Silicon Valley. At the beginning of his journey, he was a member in the CTU eClub (founded by Jan Šedivý - Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics).
Filip Masri - graduate from the Czech Technical University...
To what extent are the current robots equipped with artificial intelligence truly intelligent? Will the level of human and artificial consciousness ever be balanced? Will self-driven cars be a matter of course or rather the privilege of the rich?
Full article and interview available at: Radiožurnál (Czech only)
To what extent are the current robots equipped with artificial intelligence truly intelligent? Will the level of human and artificial consciousness ever be balanced? Will self-driven cars be a matter of course or rather the privilege of the rich?
Moderated by Lucie Výborná.
The whole record here (Czech only).
The prestigious business magazine CEO has introduced an article on cooperation between Eaton and the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC).
Exctract from the article:
How would you describe Eaton’s involvement in the automation space and how has the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) been a key collaborator in this work?
While we are a player in the...
National Center for Industry 4.0 and Testbed for Industry 4.0 will open its doors for public on 29 January 2018.
The event is primarily intended for representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises. For limited capacity reasons you will not be able to enter without a confirmed registration.
Invitation and programme in PDF (in Czech language only)
Read the first edition of Bulletin of Industry 4.0 issued by National Center for Industry 4.0.
Bulletin of Industry 4.0 (in Czech language only)
Dr. Josef Šivic, CIIRC leading researcher, principal investigator of the Intelligent Machine Perception project (IMPACT), won two prestigeous prizes for his long-term contributions to computer vision research in 2017.
The Longuet-Higgins Prize for the paper James Philbin, Ondrej Chum, Michael Isard, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman: Object Retrieval with Large Vocabularies and Fast Spatial Matching, published at the conference Computer Vision...
Roman Holý (head of National Center for Industry 4.0) participated at 3rd RRI (Robot Revolutionary Initiative) International Symposium in Tokyo. Main topics of symposium were future of the manufacturing industry, international standardization, and industrial security.
The whole video from symposium available at:
RRI International Symposium