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Researchers Gyula Sólyom and Gergely Kuna from the System and Control Laboratory of HUN-REN SZTAKI (Institute for Computer Science and Control) have successfully conducted a live demonstration of a hydrogen-powered multicopter drone at the Hungarian Defence Forces’ Ócsa Training Base.

József Váncza, Head of the Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence, together with two senior researchers from the laboratory, Balázs Csanád Csáji and András Kovács, participated in a three-day visit to the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing (SC3DP) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) between 8 and 10 October 2025. The visit took place within the framework of the joint artificial intelligence research collaboration between HUN-REN and NTU.

László Palkovics, Government Commissioner for Artificial Intelligence, and Árpád Pikéthy, Head of IBM Hungary, jointly announced the launch of the Quantum and Supercomputing Platform at the 16th Infotér conference. The strategically important Platform, of which HUN-REN SZTAKI is a founding member, aims to place Hungary at the forefront of quantum technology and AI.

HUN-REN SZTAKI welcomed the partners of GreenDIGIT in Budapest for the mid-term All Hands Μeeting, where the collaboration reflected on progress, exchanged insights, and aligned on the next steps for the project.

On October 17, 2025, a delegation from the French Institute of Budapest visited HUN-REN SZTAKI to learn about the Institute’s scientific activities and demonstrations.

Europe has joined the world’s elite club in supercomputing: JUPITER, the first supercomputer to surpass exaflops of computing power in Europe, will soon be supporting scientific research and the use of AI. At the ceremonial inauguration event, Tamás Máray, Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems at HUN-REN SZTAKI, and a member of the EuroHPC Steering Committee, represented the related domestic initiatives.

The National Laboratory for Water Science and Water Security and the National Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence (MILAB), coordinated by HUN-REN SZTAKI, held a joint full-day professional event on September 29, 2025, in the Main Hall of HUN-REN SZTAKI.

Levente Kocsis, Senior Research Fellow at HUN-REN SZTAKI, was a guest on Tilos Radio’s program Természetes intelligencia: micsoda világ!, where he discussed his 2006 publication that propelled the development of AI algorithms used in Go games.

In the English-language video, Emma Takács, researcher at HUN-REN SZTAKI, and Sándor Máthé, business development manager at the Hungarian company MM-Vill Ltd., talk about how 5G enables a robot to become wireless. Funded by the Imagine-B5G initiative

On September 19, we organized one of the most exciting events of the B-prepared project: the hackathon, where the finalists selected in the previous round were invited to compete. Ten participants from four countries joined the offline challenge, each tackling a personalized development task and presenting their solutions to the jury. The decision was not easy, as the level of competition was exceptionally high — in the end, in addition to the three main prizes, two special awards were also presented.

A HUN-REN SZTAKI munkatársai (Dr. Hiba Antal, Körtvélyesi Viktor, Dr. Bauer Péter) drónbemutatót tartottak a 2025. szeptember 17-18.-án megrendezett II. Belügyi Drón Kupán a Rendőrségi Oktatási és Kiképző Központ Rendőrképző Akadémiáján, Remeteszőlősön.

A HUN-REN SZTAKI és az Ivy Technology közös projektje, a „Robotic Arm Measurement – Automating Debug for Smarter Repairs” nyerte a DTSP Innovation Center of Excellence „Technology & Tools Innovation Award” díját.