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🎄🤖 #ROBOPROX is wishing you a joyous holiday season filled with innovation and exciting new beginnings!🎉 As we wrap up an exciting year of innovation and progress in the world of robotics and advanced manufacturing, we’re celebrating the magic of technology with a little holiday twist! 🌟 This Christmas tree? It's a masterpiece printed by Michal Rytíř and Tomas Kratena within the ROBOPROX team of RCMT FME CTU in Prague with the use of cutting-edge #3D robotic printing technology in the #RICAIP Testbed Prague at #CIIRC CTU.🎄🤖 In 2025, we're set to continue pushing the boundaries of what's possible in #manufacturing and #robotics. We look forward to sharing more exciting developments with you and working together to shape the future. Thank you to all of the ROBOPROX partners and teams, namely: 🔵 České vysoké učení technické v Praze | Czech Technical Universtiy in Prague #CTU: 🔹 Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics 🔹 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague 🔹 Fakulta strojní ČVUT v Praze 🔹 Fakulta stavební ČVUT v Praze 🔹 Faculty of Information Technology CTU in Prague 🔹 Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics (#IEAP) 🔵 Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava | Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO) 🔹 Fakulta elektrotechniky a informatiky, VŠB-TUO 🔵 Západočeská univerzita v Plzni (ZČU) | The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (#UWB) 🔹 NTIS – New Technologies for the Information Society 🔵 Vysoké učení technické v Brně | Brno University of Technology #BUT 🔹 CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology for all the innovative work accomplished this year, and we're excited to see what the future holds. 💡🤖 #AdvancedManufacturing | #MerryChristmas | #HappyNewYear

The first #ISAB meeting for the #ROBOPROX project was a great success! ✨ A day packed with innovative research, fresh perspectives, and developments in robotics and industrial production. 💡🛠️ A highlight of the meeting was the impressive presentations by 12 young researchers who are already pushing the boundaries of what's possible within the ROBOPROX project. 🦾 ⚙️ WP1: Control and Optimization for Systems, Materials, and Manufacturing (Lukáš Zezula, Adrian Saldanha, Jiri Zemanek, Slávek Zbirovský, and Prashant Dwivedi) 🤖 WP2: Robotics and Computational Methods for Production (Jan Behrens, Matej Novosad, Shubhan Patni, Zdeněk Rozsypálek, Josef Grus, Michal Opler, and Jan Hula) You can watch the presentations on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eZeZ5icT These presentations clearly showed that our partner organisations and their faculties, namely Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, CTU in Prague | Fakulta strojní ČVUT v Praze, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU in Prague | Fakulta stavební ČVUT v Praze and Faculty of Information Technology CTU in Prague 🤝 A big thank you to the ISAB for their guidance and to all the presenters for sharing their work. We look forward to more productive meetings and continued collaboration in the upcoming year! 🚀

Meet the ROBOPROX #ISAB - the International Scientific Advisory Board🤖 At #ROBOPROX, we are committed to driving forward research in robotics and advanced industrial production. A key part of this is our collaboration with the International Scientific Advisory Board (#ISAB), a team of experts guiding us in making our work more effective and relevant. 🌐 The #ISAB plays an essential role in steering our project with expert advice, ensuring our results are practical, and providing invaluable feedback to help us grow every year. 📈 Our ISAB is composed of leading figures in the fields of #robotics, #AI, and industrial #engineering, including 🇳🇱 Jan Karel Lenstra (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) 🇺🇸 Michael Pinedo (NYU Stern School of Business) 🇩🇪 Ralph Lange (Bosch Research) 🇵🇹 Albano Cavaleiro (Universidade de Coimbra) 🇩🇪 Wolfgang Wahlster (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)) 🇯🇵 Toshio Fukuda (早稲田大学 WASEDA University) 🇩🇪 Arnd Schirrmann (Airbus) 🇨🇿 Leoš Dvořák (Valeo) We recently held the first ROBOPROX ISAB meeting, where members reviewed the latest developments and shared valuable insights on how we can continue to strengthen the project. Their feedback is crucial in guiding our next steps and ensuring that our work stays impactful and relevant to real-world applications. 🦾

Every child deserves the chance to see the world—literally. Thanks to #AI, premature babies at risk of losing their sight now have new hope. 💡 In collaboration with the University Hospital Ostrava | Fakultní nemocnice Ostrava 🏥 and VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava | Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava 🤖, we’re proud that ROBOPROX teams at #VSBTUO contributed to a solution that is transforming the diagnosis and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity. This serious condition, which can lead to blindness in premature babies, is now being tackled with advanced AI technology. 👁️🦾 By analyzing thousands of retinal images, progressive algorithms can detect abnormalities more accurately and even predict how well a baby’s blood vessels respond to treatment. The result? Faster diagnoses, better care, and brighter futures for those who need it most. 👶 We’re especially proud of Jana Nowáková, a key contributor to this project and a member of the #ROBOPROX #WomenForum, for her role in driving this work forward. Huge thanks also to Václav Snášel, Rector of VŠB-TUO and all the researchers and institutions involved for their achievements. 🙏

Imagine a future where seniors can live independently, while still staying connected to their caregivers in real time. Sounds like science fiction? Not anymore. 😎 We’re really happy about the engagement of Karla Štěpánová's team, part of the #ROBOPROX, in the #EULE project, an advanced initiative to revolutionize elderly care with AI-driven home monitoring systems. 🏡 In collaboration with IWS Innovations- und Wissensstrategien GmbH, MediTECH Electronic GmbH, cibX GmbH, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln and Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, the project is using #AI and sensor #tech to help monitor seniors’ health and alert caregivers at the moment something goes wrong.💪 Why share this here? Because ROBOPROX is all about pushing the boundaries of what #AI and #robotics can do to improve lives. This project is just one step towards that bigger goal. 🎯 👉 Ready to see what’s next? Check out the website of EULE for more information: https://lnkd.in/g5KG9mCH

The clock is ticking, and we’re down to the final week to submit your application for the #ROBOPROX Women Forum funding! 🦾 If you’re a female student in a technical field (BSc/MSc), don’t miss out on this opportunity to receive up to 120,000 CZK for your research project. 🔬 You’ve got just few days left to get your application in before the December 15 deadline. ⏰ Whether your project is about #robotics, #AI, #engineering, or any other exciting #tech field, this is your chance to bring your ideas to life with support from an amazing community of women in tech. 👩🏻💻 Don’t wait! Apply now and take your project to the next level. 🚀 More info and application form at our website 🤖https://lnkd.in/daGNd_Fd

How can we effectively manage large academic projects and attract top research talent? These were some of the key topics discussed during the first meeting of the International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) for the ROBOPROX project, held on October 15, 2024.💡The meeting brought together brought together a diverse group of experts from various prestigious institutions, along with project board members and group leaders, and 12 young researchers, who presented their impressive project outcomes so far. 🚀 Discussions focused on strategies for improving collaboration among researchers, managing teams, and increasing the participation of women in science.🔬 Huge thanks to the ISAB members for their ideas on improving collaboration and building a more inclusive research community. Excited to meet again in autumn 2025! 🤖 For more updates, visit our website: https://lnkd.in/enkRSJ-v #ROBOPROX #ResearchInnovation #ISAB #RoboticsResearch

#ROBOPROXPublication: Many congratulations to the #CTU researchers of Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague and Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics for an excellent paper in #IEEE Transactions on Robotics IEEE Xplore (IF 9.4)! 🎉 Michal Pliska, Shubhan Patni, Michal Mareš, Pavel Stoudek, Zdeněk Straka, Matej Hoffmann and Karla Štěpánová demonstrate how gripper design, sensory inputs, and action parameters influence haptic object recognition. 🤖✋    Discover more in: https://lnkd.in/e3mT_9QQ Open access/ preprint #ArXiv: https://lnkd.in/ewqQY8nS We're proud to support research that pushes the boundaries of #robotics and tactile intelligence.🚀   M. Pliska et al., "Single-Grasp Deformable Object Discrimination: The Effect of Gripper Morphology, Sensing Modalities, and Action Parameters," in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 40, pp. 4414-4426, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TRO.2024.3463402. #Grippers #Robots #Sensors #ObjectRecognition

🔔 #ROBOPROXTeam: New Postdoctoral Researcher Joins the ROBOPROX Project 🤖 We are happy to welcome Krisztina Szilagyi to the #ROBOPROX team (particularly the Dušan Knop research group at Department of Theoretical Computer Science Faculty of Information Technology CTU in Prague) as our newest postdoc. 👩💻 Her research focuses on parameterized complexity of graph problems. In particular, she designs efficient algorithms to solve problems with a wide range of applications in robotics, from scheduling to pattern detection. 🧩 We look forward to the advances her contributions will bring to the project. 🚀

Calling all young women in tech! 👩💻🚀Are you ready to bring your research ideas to life with support from the ROBOPROX Women Forum? We’re happy to announce a new round of funding to support innovative research projects led by talented female students in technical fields. If you’re currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in technical sciences (or are a motivated female ready to apply), this opportunity is for you! ✨ Funding: Up to 120,000 CZK per project ✨ Project Duration: 3–6 months (scope within ROBOPROX, exceptions possible) ✨ Deadline: December 15, 2024 (Next round: May 30, 2025) This is your chance to collaborate, create, and make an impact, so don’t miss out -apply now and bring your vision to life! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/daGNd_Fd