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News from the National Centre of Robotics

Jun 20, 2017 |

In the Documents, you can find all the documents concerning with our activities. We are happy to announce that we will take a part in the project Inteligent mobile assistents in SMART FACTORY, which will be solved under the SF of EU. From this reason we needed to enter a Register of public sector partners … read more

National Centre of Robotics is really national

Jun 7, 2017 |

Today was a meeting day with some private companies due to solving of research projects. That is why National Centre of Robotics was visited by Ing. Alexander Varga (CEO MicroStep), Ing. Juraj Čapek (director of Industrial Automation, Matador Industries), and Ing. Ján Žižka, PhD. (CEO Photoneo). We believe that transfer of technology from the universities … read more

Excursion in Munich organised by National Centre of Robotics

Apr 18, 2017 |

On 12th and 13th April, students of FEI STU under the patronate of NCR visited company SENSODRIVE GmbH, TU Munchen, and Deutches Museum in Munich. In the company SENSDORIVE GmbH they saw many interesting products especially from the area of robotics, drive control, and sensors. National Centre of Robotics was introduced to the company directors … read more

Another rare visitor in NCR

Mar 30, 2017 |

On 29th March NCR was visited by Miloš Koterec, that is diplomatic advisor of vice prime minister for investment and informatization. The discussion was focused on actual trends in industrial manufacturing and robotics especially with the regards on German concept Industrie 4.0. Of course there were also discussions about the state of Slovak education system. … read more

Visiting Prisma Lab

Mar 10, 2017 |

President of National Centre of Robotics Frantisek Duchon and head of European Composite Holding (http://www.compositesholding.eu/) Marek Poročák have visited on 6th Match 2017 unique robot laboratory Prisma Lab, which is under lead of prof. Bruno Siciliano. Meeting was very inspiring and we hope that this is only the begining of mutual cooperation.

We reconstruct additional laboratories

Feb 28, 2017 |

Considering the activities in current spaces of NCR we and Faculty of electrical engineering and information technology decided to expand our space by another laboratories. First laboratory (see pictures below) is focused on research in mobile and service robotics. Original spaces will therefore be used specifically for industrial robotics. Second laboratory is Laboratory of automated … read more

National Centre of Robotics welcomes scientist from foreign countries

Feb 20, 2017 |

National Centre of Robotics cooperates with scientists in international research. Currently realizes the research in our lab PhD. student Roman Mykhailyshyn from Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University in Ukraine. His work is focused on pneumatic grippers of industrial robots, which use principles of Bernoulli gripping. Supervisor of his thesis is PhD. Savkiv Volodymyr. Results … read more

New equipment – robots Kobuki

Dec 16, 2016 |

National Centre of Robotics has acquired new robots Kobuki. These robots are characterized by low weight, high ratio weight/payload, easy expandability and open architecture also in ROS. Robots will be used in R&D and in education of subject Control of Mobile Robots. Currently we are working on their extension by a laser scanner and IMU … read more

Students from secondary school in Nové Zámky have visited National Centre of Robotics

Dec 16, 2016 |

On 13th december 2016 a group of 38 students from SPŠE Nové Zámky have visited National Centre of Robotics. According to words of teacher Takácsová: “Just yesterday we discussed the impressions from the visit and we have pointed out that both our students and we teachers got a lot of information and inspiration. We are … read more

National Centre of Robotics is one of the leading research facilities of STU

Nov 22, 2016 |

Rectorage of Slovak University of Technology chose National Centre of Robotics as one of the leading research facilities of whole university. NCR found itself in promotional materials called Leading Research Facilities of STU. Poster about us and our research can be found below. popredne-vyskumne-pracoviska-stu-d2-fei-tlac