The fourth annual CyberDay conference devoted to cybersecurity got underway at the Skolkovo Technopark on Friday, the 30 th anniversary of the establishment of Computer Security Day. Skolkovo Foundation chairman Arkady Dvorkovich speaking at the opening...
Amid the driverless cars, robots, virtual reality headsets, industrial equipment and examples of every area of tech on show at the Open Innovations forum held at the Skolkovo Technopark this week, some looked a little out of place. An inviting-looking double...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
The Skolkovo innovation city welcomed a large delegation from the Belgian city of Antwerp this week, at which the two sides established areas of cooperation and one Skolkovo startup won the chance to launch pilot projects at Antwerp companies. The 100...
Not so long ago, a prostate cancer operation would cost the patient 1.5 litres of blood and entail a two-week stay in hospital. Now the average patient loses just 20 millilitres of blood, and three days in hospital are usually sufficient. This drastic change...
The Skolkovo Technopark is once again getting ready to be taken over by robots for its annual Skolkovo Robotics Forum , which attracts robots – and the humans who make them – from all over the globe. As in previous years, Skolkovo Robotics...
“AI will not replace lawyers, but will enhance connections to data beyond the abilities of a human mind. And data can win cases,” believes Michael Lew, founder of LegalComet, a legal tech advisory service based in Singapore. Michael Lew, founder...
Energy, space, ICT and smart city technologies are all areas in which Egypt could join forces with the Skolkovo Foundation, Egyptian Ambassador to Russia Ihab Nasr said during a visit to the Skolkovo innovation city on Monday. Egyptian Ambassador Ihab...
When the Kursk region-based agricultural enterprise Agrofirma Rylskaya noticed that the costs of their sugar beet production were constantly rising, with no corresponding increase in yield, they turned to an innovative tech startup. Roboprob , a resident startup...
There is one topic that seems guaranteed to create a traffic jam along the usually uncongested road leading to the Skolkovo innovation centre, and that topic is blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This week, bitcoin approached a value per coin of $10,000, and...
Skolkovo resident ExoAtlet , the inventor of rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has set its sights for expansion on Japan, where it is setting up a joint venture with its South Korean partners and investors. Dennis Ahn...
Если бы рука невидимого режиссера хотела придать еще большую актуальность ежегодной международной конференции Skolkovo Cyberday, то случившаяся накануне ее проведения атака компьютерного вируса-шифровальщика BadRabbit вполне справилась бы с такой задачей. Несмотря...
When Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform, was about six years old, he already knew the value of Pi to about 30 digits. “Here people teach children to memorise Pushkin poems; I learned 3.14159265359… ” the 23-year...
“Will robots take over?” and “Will robots take our jobs?” are the most frequent robot predictions searched for on Google. The internet, alas, does not always have accurate answers. But if anyone knows what the future holds in store for...
The Skolkovo Foundation will set up three venture capital funds to provide additional sources of investment for startups, the foundation’s president Victor Vekselberg said Friday at the Open Innovations forum. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
The Olympic Committee of Russia is to build a 50,000 sq. m. research and development center at the Skolkovo Innovation Center by 2018 under an agreement signed Friday by the two parties. Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov, left, and Skolkovo Foundation...