The third conference of the Engineering Forum 2017 cycle entitled DIGITALIZATION - the way to increase efficiency of production processes was held on 15 November, 2017 at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) CTU in Prague. The event took place in synergy with the ARaP 2017 Conference. The main focus of the conference was the current...
The SAP Leonardo Day 2017 conference took place at the end of November in the CTU-CIIRC building. It was organized by SAP and the recently established National Center for Industry 4.0. The aim of the conference was to present the emerging ecosystem of Industry 4.0 on the Czech market and to show real examples of Czech companies which have already...
Project of Department of the Deputy Prime Minister for Science, Research and Innovation "Scientists under a microscope" is a pilot series of standardized video interviews with outstanding personalities of contemporary science.
The guest of the first part was Prof. Vladimír Mařík (Director of CIIRC CTU).
You can see the whole interview at the following link (in Czech language only):
Scientists under the...
On November 1, 2017, dozens of interested parties met on topics such as digitization, automation and Industry 4.0 in the building of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU). There was a conference organized by Deloitte and Siemens, the Czech-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the CIIRC. Czech and foreign speakers concentrated on the possibilities...
On December 5, 2017, the CIIRC Science Council met for the third time in the new building of CTU-CIIRC. Director prof. Mařík and the head of the project office Dr. Vít Dočkal informed the members of the Science Council about the current situation and strategic plans. Subsequently, a discussion was held between the Science Council participants and the director, presenting...
The team of CTU students (Long Hoang Nguyen, Jan Pichl, Martin Matulík, Jakub Konrád, Petr Marek and Ondra Hrách) led by Jan Šedivý from the CIIRC CTU took part in the final of The Alexa Prize. It competed for who can develop the best chatbot working with the smart Amazon Echo device. The Czech team brought home the second...
On November 30 and December 1, 2017, Roman Holý, the head of the National Center for Industry 4.0 of the CIIRC CTU, attended the third year of the international symposium RRI (Robot Revolutionary Initiative) and also visited the International Robotics Exhibition (iREX) 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. Both events took place in the attractive setting of the modern conference complex...
Students from CTU, led by Jan Šedivý, 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 will bring home the...
Prof. Mařík together with Roman Knap, the director of the Czech branch of SAP, about the forthcoming SAP Leonardo Day conference and the future of smart factories.
The whole interview available at the following link (in Czech language only):
Česká televize - Studio 6 Víkend
Professor Stefan W. Hell, the Nobel Prize winner for chemistry in 2014, visited CTU as part of HISE program (Honeywell Initiative for Science & Engineering) on 7 and 8 November, 2017. One of his stops was also CIIRC CTU.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to Stefan W. Hell, Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner "for the development...