Autonomous navigation in challenging terrain, night-time operations, and supplying military units without direct human control. Researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU FEE), together with the University of Defence and VOP CZ, successfully tested the autonomous capabilities of the TAROS unmanned ground vehicle during the international military exercise ARTEX 2026 in Portugal. Over two weeks, the platform covered more than 100 kilometres, including several dozen kilometres autonomously. A major achievement was its participation in a resupply mission in which the operator merely supervised the vehicle's operation.

Dr. Zuzana Labudová, Ombudsperson at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU FEE), has completed her second year in the role. During the 2025/2026 academic year, she handled a total of 31 cases brought forward by students, employees, and other individuals, representing a 25% increase compared to the previous year. In addition to addressing individual cases, she focused on preventing inappropriate behaviour, improving the study and working environment, and providing training for employees.

What should an electric car sound like? Can you create your own musical instrument, design a sound effect for a video game, or turn data into sound? The Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU in Prague is launching another edition of Synth Challenge 2026, a student competition that encourages creativity and technical skills in sound synthesis. Competition entries can be submitted until 26 December 2026.

How intelligible is a voice message transmitted over military radio communications under challenging conditions? And how much effort does the recipient have to make to understand the information correctly? These are the questions addressed by research into digital voice communication conducted jointly by the University of Defence and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU (CTU FEE), together with members of the Czech Armed Forces and experts from the Czech defence industry.

What would a portrait look like if it copied your smile, head movements or even subtle changes in expression in real time? Visitors to this year’s Signal Festival will be able to experience this for themselves thanks to FaceIt, a technology developed with the participation of researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU in Prague. The interactive installation builds on research by Prof. Daniel Sýkora’s team and can transfer a person’s facial expressions onto a stylized portrait in real time. CTU FEE’s second major contribution to the festival will be the audiovisual projection EFORCE: DNA of Champions, tracing more than fifteen years of CTU’s student Formula car development. Visitors will find both installations on Technická Street in Dejvice from 15 to 18 October – FaceIt on the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering building and EFORCE on the façade of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

FEE CTU organizes the CTU Open 26 on October 23rd and 24th, 2026 as the Czech-Slovak round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) competition. The ICPC is believed to be the oldest, largest and most prestigious programming competition out there. This year, it is the 50th World Finals.

When does artificial intelligence genuinely help students in language learning, and when does it instead begin to replace the learning process? This was the focus of a three-day international workshop hosted in September by the Department of Languages at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague (FEL CTU). Teachers and researchers from eight European universities came to Prague, joined by CTU students. The meeting followed up on research into the use of generative AI in language education, which the FEL CTU team has been conducting over the long term.

More than sixty works by contemporary Czech artists can be seen from 30 September by students, employees and visitors to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE) and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME) at CTU. The exhibition Bridges of Imagination – Geometry of Science and the Freedom of Abstraction presents part of the collection of investor and philanthropist Jan Barta and makes it accessible to the public for the first time.

On Thursday 19 November 2026, the National House of Vinohrady will once again welcome students, staff, alumni and friends of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague (FEE CTU). The fourth Faculty Electro-Waltz – the FEE CTU ball – will take place under this year’s theme, ‘It’s Written in the Stars’.

Have you just started your first year on the Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering and Management (EEM) programme and would like to get to know your fellow students and lecturers? Join us at FEL Café on Thursday 15 October from 16:30 for Electrifying EEM Freshers and get a taste of the faculty atmosphere and university life.

Prof. Zbyněk Škvor from the Department of Electromagnetic Field at FEE CTU has been awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal for his outstanding contribution to engineering education. It is the highest distinction awarded by SEFI, the “Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs” (European Society for Engineering Education).

The Helhest tactical robot, developed by researchers from the Vision for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (VRAS) group at the Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (FEE CTU), won the RoboTour 2026 competition. The challenge was to navigate a course along park paths near Prague’s Planetarium as accurately and quickly as possible, while avoiding competing robots and staying on a route that was unknown to the robot beforehand.

CTU Racing Day will take place on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, bringing another action-packed programme full of speed and cutting-edge technology. EFORCE Prague Formula will showcase its autonomous electric formula car in action. An electric motorcycle developed by the CTU Lions team will also take to the track, while the Green Gliders team will demonstrate its highly energy-efficient electric formula car. The event will take place at the Dejvice campus from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Are you a high school student with an interest in robotics? Sign up for the autumn round of Robotic Competition! Registration is already open and will close on October 18, 2026.

The international team behind the Visual Object Tracking (VOT) initiative, with Professor Jiří Matas of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU FEE) as one of its key figures, has received the 2026 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize. The prestigious award, recognising outstanding contributions to the computer vision community, was presented to the team on 12 September at ECCV 2026 in Malmö, Sweden. The award recognises more than a decade of work on workshops and challenges that have fundamentally shaped how visual object tracking methods are developed and evaluated today.