Films & talks
Films, talks and experiments
A family testimony, my story on stage, experiments in the lab and the making of Project Tao.
Featured documentary · English · 24 min
The Journey Home
My great-grandfather Pavol Bučan’s written account of imprisonment, a death march, escape and his return home in 1945. The film ends with five generations of the family that preserved his testimony.
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Featured talk – TEDx Bratislava 2014
My dream about AI
The childhood dream, a difficult start in Plymouth, and the people who helped me find my way into robotics. This is the most personal introduction to my work.
Origin and story
From student to speaker
An early university interview and conversations from the robotics years.
Robotics, Mars, active vision
Machines learning through body, action, and place.
The research work: humanoid robotics, rover simulation, active perception, and software that made experiments visible.
Science Museum
Connecting actions with language
iCub action-language video shown in the London museum display.
ESA / Mars
MSL rover and ODE, autonomous progress
2009-2010 – rover simulation – research demo. Terrain, sensing, and autonomy before the iCub period took over.
NVIDIA keynote
GPU robotics research mentioned at SC11
2011 – NVIDIA – public keynote mention. GPU robotics visible in the wider CUDA story.
More robotics filmsOpen supporting demos
Robotics
University of Plymouth Robotics
Humanoid robotics
iCub controlled by complex neural networks
Simulation
MSLS: Mars Science Laboratory Simulation
Research
Active Vision
Active vision
MSLS – Active Vision Project
Aquila
iCub teleoperation
Aquila
Recurrent neural network on iCub
Rover
AUROX autonomous rover exploration
Applied AI
AICore
Cortexica and applied vision
From research vision to applied AI cameras.
These films show the camera years becoming physical: hardware on desks, inference on edge devices, rooms under awkward lighting, and the discipline of making vision survive contact with the world.
Overview
The Path of Innovation
AI camera
CortexiCAM – AI cameras based on Myriad-X
Camera-years object: edge inference moved into the camera body.
Edge AI
AI at the Edge
Room state
Axis Experience Centre demo
Camera-years room record: visual states made legible under real conditions.
More applied vision filmsOpen supporting demos
Spatial intelligence and synthetic worlds
Cameras learning where things are.
Generator and the six-view precursor mark the move from camera outputs to shared spatial understanding: known cameras, controllable truth, and observations that can belong to the same world.
Tao
Tao, built over years.
Three highlights stay here as the bridge from talks and demos into place. The fuller Tao film selection lives on the dedicated Project Tao Films page.
Observation
Astronomy, optics, and observation.
The astronomy videos stay because they belong to the same older habit as cameras and coordinates: looking carefully, locating things in space, and sharing curiosity in public.
