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It was experienced also by the researchers of HUN-REN SZTAKI on a drone flight test in the sunset near Baracska, Hungary. The mentioned researchers are also active in the ARNL.

HUN-REN's SZTAKI researchers have been awarded a grant from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Their proposal entitled "Combining analytic and data-driven machine-learning based methods for efficient adaptive dynamic modelling" was prepared by Roland Tóth, Tamás Péni and Bálint Vanek, leading researchers at HUN-REN SZTAKI, all three researchers actively contribute to the research carried out at ARNL.

On 18 October 2023, Csaba Benedek, Deputy Director of HUN-REN SZTAKI received Dr. Jake Phillips, Coordinator for Cybernetics in Central and Eastern Europe at the UK Foreign Office, and Levente Nyitrai and Krisztina Kocsis, both from the UK Embassy in Budapest.

ARNL's Lead Researcher, Balázs Németh, who is also the Head of the Engineering Mission at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, gave a presentation at the conference of the Egervölgy Reformed Diocese in Mezőkövesd on 16 October 2023. In his lecture, he spoke about the ethical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI), including the ethical issues related to the design, use and spread of self-driving vehicles.

Researchers of the Autonomous Systems National Laboratory (ARNL) showcased a spectacular career orientation demonstration on 30 September 2023 in Budapest as part of the Ráday Day. The event was attended by nearly 300 high school students from Budapest and the surrounding area, who tested their skills in an exciting teamwork challenge.

The workshop – held between 19 and 21 September 2023 – concerned itself with a planned handbook on the potential military applications of artificial intelligence (AI). The event brought together experts from universities, research institutes and national laboratories in Hungary, as well as specialists of the NATO and from NATO partner countries.

HUN-REN SZTAKI awaited its visitors with ten different programs, including a drone parade, demonstration of an autonomous land vehicle, an interactive blockchain simulation, demonstrations involving robots, age-clocks, and a baby monitoring system, as well as a computer hardware history exhibition, at the Researchers' Night 2023 on 29 September. Several of these programmes and demonstrations were directly related to ARNL projects and research carried out at ARNL.

József Váncza, lead researcher at the Autonomous Systems National Laboratory (ARNL), head of the Research Laboratory on Engineering and Management Intelligence (EMI) at HUN-REN SZTAKI, gave a presentation on the industrial application of digital twin technology to an at capacity audience at the gala conference on the twenty-five-year Hungarian success story of additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) on 21 September 2023 in Budapest.

On September 12th and 13th, researchers of the Autonomous Systems National Laboratory (ARNL) participated in an introductory and networking workshop aimed at providing SAAB and Ericsson's partners with an opportunity to introduce themselves to the mentioned companies and establish professional connections therewith. SAAB is exploring the potential for academic collaborations in Hungary, and, as a first step, they collaborated with Ericsson Hungary to have key academic stakeholders in the fields of AI, autonomy, and transportation present their ongoing research activities.