A Skolkovo resident startup was awarded first prize in the Global Happiness Technology Challenge in China last week for its Webot telepresence product. Webot, a remote presence bot, allows users to observe the bot’s surroundings from their location...
As the new academic year draws closer, it was announced this week that a robot designed by a Skoltech students is to attend class in place of children whose disabilities prevent them from leaving home. Webot in action. Photo: Skoltech Webot, developed...
Computer-aided design giant Autodesk has signed a cooperation agreement with the Skolkovo Foundation to potentially provide software support to resident startups and Skoltech students. Skolkovo's Alexandra Barshchevskaya, left, and Autodesk's...
In building the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, it would be an “extraordinary waste of energy” to simply create another MIT, the president of the fledgling Russian innovations university, Ed Crawley, has said in televised remarks....
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is publishing a database of its students’ startup businesses online to promote transparency and boost exposure. The Skoltech Projects website. Photo: projects.skoltech.ru The “Skoltech...
A prominent US diplomat said Monday that Skolkovo’s partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is more important now than ever. In opening remarks at the US-Russia Research Symposium in the Russian capital, Jeffrey Sexton, minister...
HELSINKI, Finland - The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology has struck up a student exchange program with Aalto University in Finland, Skoltech vice president Alexei Sitnikov told sk.ru. The agreement between the two innovation-based universities...