{"name":"Applied AI in Slovakia — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Slovakia, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/slovakia","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Slovakia","slug":"slovakia","iso2":"SK","region":"Europe"},"counts":{"entries":22,"deployments":15,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":7,"industries":9,"countries":1,"linked":22},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Slovakia","role":"Teacher","org":"Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic","text":"The Ministry of Education now gives primary and secondary teachers free premium ChatGPT, Mistral, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot accounts, AI tools for teachers. Head teachers choose up to three per staff member in DigiEdu: ChatGPT and Mistral are uncapped, Gemini (20,000 licences) and Microsoft 365 Copilot (24,500) limited. Switching on the classroom AI may take weeks.","date":"2026-10-19","source":"https://www.teraz.sk/slovensko/skoly-si-mozu-objednavat-bezplatne/1000903-clanok.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Slovakia","role":"Optometrist","org":"Alensa","text":"Alensa opticians in Košice now run AI retinal screening, checking fundus photos for diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration and haemorrhage. The software carries Class IIb EU medical-device certification. Alensa wants to ease pressure on ophthalmologists and cut queues for specialist appointments, with further Slovakia branches adding the eye-test AI over coming months; the account is the retailer's own.","date":"2026-10-05","source":"https://brandit.touchit.sk/2026/10/05/na-slovensku-sa-zavadza-kontrola-zraku-pomocou-umelej-inteligencie-ai-dokaze-odhalit-cukrovku-aj-dalsie-ochorenia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Slovakia","role":"Radiologist","org":"Nemocnica Malacky","text":"Nemocnica Malacky's refurbished suite now holds Slovakia's first Philips Ingenia Ambition X, using Dual AI software for AI MRI scanning. The 1.4-million-euro system speeds AI-assisted magnetic resonance imaging and sharpens pictures, rebuilding frames and correcting breathing motion. Its 70-centimetre bore gives patients more room.","date":"2026-09-07","source":"https://medicina.trend.sk/aktualne/prva-svojho-druhu-na-slovensku-malacky-spustili-magneticku-rezonanciu-s-umelou-inteligenciou/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Slovakia","org":"Government of the Slovak Republic","text":"Slovakia has approved a draft act placing state administration of artificial intelligence under the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatisation (MIRRI), naming it the single contact point and central market surveillance authority for AI systems. This Slovakia AI regulation splits sector-specific duties among the National Security Authority, the Data Protection Office and the Justice Ministry, and requires MIRRI to build a regulatory sandbox for developing and testing AI under the new AI oversight law. The law takes effect 1 January 2027.","date":"2026-08-26","source":"https://www.teraz.sk/spravy/vlada-dohlad-nad-ai-ma-koordinovat/987606-clanok.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Slovakia","role":"Gastroenterologist","org":"Agel","text":"Agel has installed certified AI colonoscopy support at 12 gastroenterology centres across Slovakia and the Czech Republic. MAIA Labs software marks suspicious lesions on live endoscope video. Agel-cited clinical studies credit AI-assisted colonoscopy with a near-40% Adenoma Detection Rate gain and 61% more precancerous lesions found per examination.","date":"2026-07-23","source":"https://www.teraz.sk/zdravie/agel-vytvoril-pracovisko-vyuzivajuce/979927-clanok.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Slovakia","role":"Hop grower","org":"Plzeňský Prazdroj Slovensko","text":"Slovakia's last commercial hop yard, in Nemšová, is testing AI irrigation management for hop farming under Plzeňský Prazdroj Slovensko's PRE CHMEĽ project. Sensor stations record soil moisture, temperature, humidity and rainfall, feeding an app whose algorithm tells farmers when and how much to water. A prior Czech run of this smart irrigation approach produced a 40% output jump where staff followed its schedule.","date":"2026-04-17","source":"https://hnonline.sk/hn-nativ/96276191-poslednej-slovenskej-chmelnici-radi-umela-inteligencia-v-nemsovej-osadili-specialne-meteostanice"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Slovakia","org":"Government of the Slovak Republic","text":"Slovakia has created the Rada vlády SR pre digitálnu transformáciu a umelú inteligenciu (Government Council for Digital Transformation and AI), on a MIRRI proposal. It replaces the former Government Council for Digitalisation of Public Administration and the Single Digital Market, steering Slovak AI policy and digital transformation through coordinating work spanning AI governance coordination government-wide.","date":"2026-04-08","source":"https://mirri.gov.sk/aktuality/digitalna-agenda/vlada-schvalila-zriadenie-rady-vlady-sr-pre-digitalnu-transformaciu-a-umelu-inteligenciu/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Slovakia","role":"Shop assistant","org":"Metro Slovakia","text":"Metro Slovakia runs an autonomous store retail site in Mlynky, part of the Môj obchod partner network, staffed by day and switched to unattended AI-run operation once employees leave. Computer-vision cameras log every item taken from shelves, giving shoppers 24/7 access without a cashier on duty. Staff return each morning, so the shop is only self-operating outside normal opening hours.","date":"2026-02-01","source":"https://www.tovarapredaj.sk/2026/03/11/metro-slovakia-predstavilo-prvu-hybridnu-autonomnu-predajnu-v-sieti-moj-obchod/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Slovakia","role":"Neurosurgeon","org":"Univerzitná nemocnica Bratislava (UNB)","text":"Central Europe's first AI-assisted brain surgery took place at Univerzitná nemocnica Bratislava (UNB), where neurosurgeons used an AI model from the University Hospital Rio Hortega in Valladolid, Spain to scan intraoperative ultrasound in real time, flagging tumour remnants invisible to the eye. Post-operative MRI showed no residual tumour, and the patient was discharged. The case marks an early regional milestone for AI brain tumour surgery.","date":"2026-01-18","source":"https://medicina.trend.sk/inovacie/neurochirurgovia-z-kramarov-maju-za-sebou-unikatnu-operaciu-mozgu-asistovala-im-umela-inteligencia/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Slovakia","org":"National Council of the Slovak Republic","text":"Slovakia's Act No. 318/2025 Coll., a Slovak AI regulation, folds the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) into domestic law, amending Act No. 56/2018 Z.z. on product conformity assessment. High-risk AI systems face new national conformity procedures, duties for economic operators, and enforcement mechanisms with penalties. AI system compliance follows.","date":"2026-01-01","source":"https://regulations.ai/regulations/RAI-SK-NA-ACTNO31-2025"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Slovakia","org":"Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic (MIRRI)","text":"A national AI strategy roadmap now guides Slovakia: MIRRI has released the AI Vision for Slovakia (Vízia AI pre Slovensko), mapping the country's AI adoption ambitions. Six themes anchor it — computing infrastructure, data sovereignty with administration, economic growth, ethical protection of fundamental rights, skills-building, and European and global cooperation — an AI policy framework preceding a fuller National AI Strategy due in 2026.","date":"2025-12-18","source":"https://mirri.gov.sk/aktuality/splnomocnenec-vlady-pre-ai/ministerstvo-investicii-regionalneho-rozvoja-a-informatizacie-predstavuje-viziu-ai-pre-slovensko/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Slovakia","role":"Postal delivery workers","org":"Slovenská pošta","text":"Slovenská pošta is trialling mAIka, its first autonomous parcel delivery vehicle, in central Bratislava, Slovakia. The AI-powered robot serves the embassies of France and Slovenia plus Bratislava city hall. Backing the self-driving postal robot pilot are the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Transport, Bratislava's city government and a technology company.","date":"2025-11-05","source":"https://zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/mzZ1sbW/slovenska-posta-skusa-dorucovanie-zasielok-po-novom-ako-to-funguje/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Slovakia","role":"Investment manager","org":"ČSOB and KBC Asset Management","text":"ČSOB and KBC Asset Management debuted Enhanced Intelligence, Slovakia's first AI-managed investment fund. Nearly 200 mathematical models process over 1,200 economic and market indicators spanning 25 years of history, an algorithmic asset management approach where a human expert signs off on each decision.","date":"2025-09-22","source":"https://zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/yA8RRJe/velka-slovenska-banka-dala-ai-vacsie-pravomoci-pri-investovani-co-sa-zmenilo/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Slovakia","role":"Radiologist","org":"Penta Hospitals SK","text":"Slovakia gained its first nationwide hospital use of AI X-ray diagnostics as Penta Hospitals SK activated the technology at all 19 sites with radiology units. Gleamer and Rayscape built the tools, spotting pathological changes on chest and skeletal scans, marked on-screen. The AI-assisted radiology rollout began autumn 2025.","date":"2025-09","source":"https://zlepsujemezdravotnictvo.sk/penta-hospitals-sk-ako-prva-siet-na-slovensku-zaviedla-umelu-inteligenciu-do-rtg-diagnostiky/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Slovakia","role":"Television producers","org":"TV Markíza","text":"Recreating wartime Bratislava for the 11th season of historical drama Dunaj, k vašim službám, TV Markíza turned to AI video generation, transforming archival photographs into convincing Second World War bombing footage. Producer Peter Kelíšek said this marked the broadcaster's first collaboration with the technology, and he found it remarkable how believable the AI-generated imagery looked when built from nothing more than old photographs. The series premiered in August 2025.","date":"2025-08-29","source":"https://www.omediach.com/tv/28857-pri-najnovsej-serii-dunaja-si-markiza-zjednodusila-natacanie-pomocou-umelej-inteligencie-video"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Slovakia","role":"Insurance agent","org":"PREMIUM poisťovňa","text":"Slovakia's first AI advisory tool insurance intermediaries can use came from PREMIUM poisťovňa, built on OpenAI technology. Agents get replies in seconds from policy files, legislation and guidance, instead of hours of manual search. Humans still judge each case; the assistant for insurance intermediaries only shortens retrieval.","date":"2025-08","source":"https://www.finreport.sk/banky-a-poistovne/premium-poistovna-prva-na-slovensku-prichadza-s-ai-poradenstvom/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Slovakia","role":"Auditor","org":"Najvyšší kontrolný úrad SR (NKÚ)","text":"AI audit automation now compiles final audit reports at Slovakia's NKÚ from individual audit protocols. Its agenda platform also runs a secure chatbot, document summarisation and meeting notes generation, on the Interior Ministry's government cloud with OpenAI services via MIRRI — an AI-driven workflow now standard, not trialled.","date":"2025-07-16","source":"https://touchit.sk/umela-inteligencia-uz-prichadza-do-verejnej-spravy-aj-na-slovensku/746169/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Slovakia","org":"Vláda Slovenskej republiky","text":"On 4 July 2025 Slovakia named Radoslav Štefánek as its first Government Plenipotentiary for Artificial Intelligence, steering Slovakia AI policy across ministries, regional bodies, companies and universities while representing the country in international AI forums. A cabinet resolution created the post, run as an advisory arm inside MIRRI, where Štefánek already holds the State Secretary title. This reflects a national AI coordination model rather than a standalone ministry.","date":"2025-07-04","source":"https://zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/qQdPOo3/slovensko-ma-splnomocnenca-pre-umelu-inteligenciu-kto-nim-je-a-co-ma-v-plane/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Slovakia","role":"Radiation oncologist","org":"Ústredná vojenská nemocnica SNP Ružomberok – Fakultná nemocnica","text":"Ružomberok's military hospital now runs AI radiotherapy planning through Limbus Contour AI, shrinking organ-at-risk contouring to two minutes. High-risk prostate cancer cases see total planning time cut by 26 minutes, since the software delineates anatomical structures automatically. This marks one of Slovakia's first uses of AI-assisted contouring in radiation oncology.","date":"2025-06","source":"https://www.uvn.sk/2025/11/13/uvn-snp-ruzomberok-zaviedla-umelu-inteligenciu-pri-planovani-radioterapie/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Slovakia","role":"Television presenters","org":"TV JOJ","text":"Slovakia's TV JOJ runs Adam, a self-built AI avatar hockey presenter, at the 2025 Ice Hockey World Championships. Adam handles fan queries on teams and players, forecasts outcomes, and shows up live on air plus across social posts. TV JOJ next wants this AI-powered digital presenter stretching past hockey.","date":"2025-05-07","source":"https://www.joj.sk/clanok/1057340-televizia-joj-predstavuje-svoju-najnovsiu-technologicku-novinku-svoju-ai-tvar-avatara-adama"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Slovakia","org":"Slovenská advokátska komora (SAK)","text":"Slovakia's SAK enforces binding AI use in legal practice rules, launched via Resolution No. 12/4/2025 of 31 March, sharpened by a November 2025 revision. Lawyers must pass an ethical check before feeding confidential client data into AI tools, under standards covering secrecy, protection and conduct. New guidance sets baseline requirements and template disclosure wording for clients on AI-assisted legal work.","date":"2025-03","source":"https://www.sak.sk/newsletter/12-2025-aktualne-informacie/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Slovakia","org":"Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic (MIRRI)","text":"MIRRI created CERAI, the Permanent Commission for Ethics and Regulation of AI, as an independent expert advisory body on Slovakia AI regulation. The commission's 21 members weigh ethical, social and legal questions in regulating artificial intelligence across research, development, deployment and use, under a February 2021 statute.","date":"2020-11-02","source":"https://mirri.gov.sk/sekcie/investicie/digitalne-inovacie/stala-komisia-pre-etiku-a-regulaciu-umelej-inteligencie/"}]}