RICAIP Presents 2024

BRNO INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING FAIR

• 5 RICAIP demonstrators showcased on a common booth with the National Centre for Industry 4.0 and its partners.
• High-level visits on the booth including the President and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.
• RICAIP Testbeds of Prague and Brno were represented at the DIGINOVATION Conference organised at the Fair.
• Social Media campaign presenting the RICAIP Testbed Pague technologies demonstrated at the fair and the team involved.
• Guided tours of RICAIP Testbed Brno

ACTIVITIES OF RICAIP TESTBEDS WITHIN THE AI MATTERS PROJECT

Thanks to the TEF initiative and the European AI-MATTERS network, companies can take advantage of advanced industrial testbeds at leading technical universities in Prague, Brno, and Ostrava under exceptional conditions.

In the Czech Republic, a budget of CZK 200 million (€8 mil.) from European and national sources has been earmarked for these purposes, which companies can draw on in the coming years for highly professional services.

VISIT OF DR. JAYANT JAGTAP (NIMS UNIVERSITY)

Dr. Jayant Jagtap, Associate Professor of Robotics and Cybernetics from the NIMS University visited RICAIP Testbed Prague following the visit of Prof. Ing. Vladimír Mařík, RICAIP PI and Scientific Director of CIIRC CTU at the NIMS University (Jaipur, India), along with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, and the signature of a MoU establishing a Czech-Indian digital partnership in innovation.

NIMS University is currently building the Marik Institute of Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning where Prof. Marik is the Honorary Director.

VISIT OF A DELEGATION FROM JAPANESE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

We had the honor of welcoming Prof. Dr. Yoichiro Matsumoto, a leading figure in science diplomacy and Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo University of Science, along with the Japanese Embassy representatives.

Together with our researchers from RICAIP Testbed Prague, the guests had the opportunity to get an in-depth look at the latest technologies in AI-driven manufacturing.

AND MANY MORE

• Delegation from Ministry of Economy of Latvia and the Embassy of Latvia in the Czech Republic
• Mr. Koreatsu Aoki, CEO of TOYOTA/TPCA and a delegation from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Czech Republic, the Association for Foreign Investment and Deutsche Telekom
• CIIRC Advisory Board Meeting
• Several visits from foreign research institutions (USA, Taiwan, Japan, German) and entrepreneurs (Taiwan, Netherlands)

AI AWARDS 2024 – Tomáš Mikolov 

In November 2024, Tomáš Mikolov won the Lifetime Achievement award, one of the six categories at this year’s AI Awards event organized by the Czech National AI Platform (prg.ai, Brno.AI, CzechInvest…).

NEURIPS 2023 TEST OF TIME AWARD – Tomáš Mikolov

In December 2023, Tomáš Mikolov had already received the Test of Time award for his long-term contribution to machine learning research for his publication co-authored with I. Sutskever, K. Chen, G. Corrado, J. Dean, published in 2013 and cited more than 40,000 times.

CVPR 2024 BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD – Torsten Sattler

Torsten Sattler , along with his team, presented 3 different papers. One of them, co-authored by Zehao Yu, Anpei Chen, Binbin Huang, Andreas Geiger and Torsten himself, won one of the two best student paper awards.

CICM 2024 BEST PAPER AWARD – Mikoláš Janota

Mikoláš received the Best Paper award at the Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics 2024, which took place in Montreal from August 5th to August 9th, 2024, for his paper co-authored by J. Jakubův, M. Janota, and J. Urban.

RICAIP co-organised the 2024 edition of the IDESSAI Summer School along with DFKI and INRIA. The five-day program attracted researchers, postdocs, and students focused on AI and robotics from across Europe.

Several of our researchers from RICAIP Testbed Prague and RICAIP Testbed Brno attended, actively contributing by sharing knowledge on human-robot collaboration and advanced industrial applications. 

RICAIP also introduced its distributed infrastructure with the RICAIP Day, part of Track B, where participants had the opportunity to engage in hands-on workshops and explore multi-robot system simulations, but also to attend a lecture offered by Martin Suda, one of our Tenure Track holders.

Activities targetting Advanced Manufacturing:

• Industry 4.0 Open Day 2024 at RICAIP Testbed Prague with live demonstrations
• ADRA European Convergence Summit – Virtual booth
• ADRForum 2024 in Eindhoven – Presentation of RICAIP by Tilman Becker and Onsite Human-Robot Collaboration demonstrator from DFKI – RICAIP Testbed in Saarbrucken.
• DFKI All Hands Meeting took place in Dresden where RICAIP Team from Saarbrucken presented their Human-Robot Collaboration demonstrator
• EIT Manufacturing RIS Hubs Conference 2024 where Tilman Becker joined a panel of experts to explore how RIS regions are driving real-world change in AI-driven green manufacturing and circular practices.

Activities towards connecting Industry 4.0 and Societal Topics:

• SheCodes MeetUp gathered more than 20 women onsite & online on June 19, 2024, to discuss their personal experience with studying and pursuing a career as a woman in the STEM fields.
• The Labour Market in the Digital Era Conference highlighted the transformative impact of digitalization on the labour market as part of the Week for Digital Czechia at CEITEC BUT.
• Researchers’ Night allowed hundreds of visitors to take a look at RICAIP Testbed Prague on September 27, 2024.
• The Young AI Research Forum was organised as a part of the AI Days (Dny AI) in RICAIP Testbed Prague, gathering students and junior researchers to create an environment for gaining practical know-how, sharing experience and establishing new relationships.
• The Women in Cyber Conference offered to introduce participants to various positions in cybersecurity as well as a tour of RICAIP Testbed Prague
• Global Goals Summit 2024 – Petr Kadera presented his vision of sustainability among the other speakers
• The SOCAIETY 2025 Conference program was mainly focusing on how artificial intelligence will affect the future of humans and society, with the support of RICAIP and the Center of City of the Future from CIIRC CTU.
• Within the Future of Innovations: Industry, Academia, and Creative Tech event, participants will explore the synergies between technology, art, and humanity, together with the leading expert in creative economy and innovation Caroline Parkinson (Edinburgh Future Institute).

Browse through the RICAIP Annual Report 2023 to get an overview of the concept and context of our centre, objectives and progress that have been made.