Vocord , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, has been ranked the world’s best face recognition engine for the third time in the MegaFace Facescrub 2016-2017 challenge . The company’s Vocord-deepVo3 algorithm topped...
Promobot , the Russian robot-maker that sprang to international fame last month when one of its robots was reported to have escaped from the testing ground in a fit of wanderlust, has made its first deal with the U.K. on the back of the escapade. IR77...
Two startups from the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have raised over $10 million in investment in their devices designed to make carrying out everyday tasks more convenient. ComfortWay , which provides travellers with access to mobile networks at...
The founders and directors of Skolkovo resident startups make up nearly one-third of a list of “ 20 young and promising heroes of tomorrow ” published by the RBC news agency’s magazine on Thursday. Six of the 20 inventors and entrepreneurs...
Young IT specialists will turn their hand to battling the forest fires that have ravaged Russia in recent summers by gathering this weekend for a hackathon aimed at developing technology to monitor their outbreak. An emergency worker battling a blaze...
NFWare , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation that develops network software that enables the high-speed processing of internet traffic, has raised $2 million in venture funding, the IT company said in a statement Thursday. The round was led by...
Navigine , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes indoor navigation and tracking systems, has attracted $400,000 in investment from a syndicate led by Finnish fintech company Innovestor. The deal with Navigine is Innovestor’s first...
Oil producer Gazprom Neft is to open a research and development centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow under an agreement signed Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg (left)...
Skolkovo resident startup VisionLabs has been selected from among more than 300 companies to become one of 12 participants of ChallengeUp! , an international startup accelerator run by Intel, Cisco and Deutsche Telekom. Participants of the ChallengeUp...
Wallarm , a Russian cybersecurity startup, has been selected to take part in Y Combinator , one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent seed accelerator programmes. The accelerator is investing $120,000 in the startup. The IT company, which uses machine...
Two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping signed a raft of energy deals in Beijing on Saturday, a delegation of high-flying Chinese internet entrepreneurs visited the Skolkovo innovation centre as part of a fact...
Just a few years ago, a machine that would scan a printed page of text and then print it in another language would have seemed like science fiction. Now it’s a reality offered by Xerox Easy Translator Service , which used the technology of Skolkovo resident...
Wells Fargo has won a Most Innovative Feature Award for its use of a mobile biometric authentication system developed by Skolkovo resident Speech Technology Center (STC) . The U.S. bank’s mobile app for commercial account customers, which uses STC’s...
The face recognition algorithm of Vocord , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, has been named the world’s most effective in its category, beating competitors including Google. In the ranking to test various facial recognition...
Skolkovo resident company VisionLabs has been selected as one of just six projects in the final competition of Innorobo , Europe’s biggest robotics trade fair. VisionLabs will now pitch its facial recognition technology, software and cloud solutions...
Two underwater robot projects were among the three winners of the Degree of Freedom competition for unmanned vehicles and driver assistance systems that will now be awarded mini-grants from the Skolkovo Foundation. GNOM's underwater robots are designed...
Two residents of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have teamed up to work on a secure communications system using quantum cryptography technology devised by Russian Quantum Centre (RQC) in conjunction with existing telecoms infrastructure developed...
Two Skolkovo resident startups were included in the TekhUspekh (TechUp) rating of fast-growing Russian tech companies announced at Moscow State University last week. Eidos ( Ensim ), which makes surgery simulators for training surgeons and medical students...
If children throughout the 20 th century delightedly developed their engineering skills by playing with Meccano, a Russian startup hopes that 21 st -century children will find its robotic constructor kits no less fascinating – and educational. Roman...
The Internet of Things: IT Challenge competition reached its grand finale at the Skolkovo innovation centre Friday, with prizes of 5 million rubles ($78,000) awarded to the winners in several categories. Skolkovo resident THRONE Systems scooped first prize...
A friendly Russian robot made by Skolkovo Foundation resident startup Promobot has sworn to protect British football fans attending the FIFA World Cup in Russia next year. The robot, named Alantim, read on the internet that many British fans were reluctant...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a strategic business cooperation agreement with the Russian division of Japan’s Panasonic Corporation during a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the island nation on Friday. Skolkovo vice president...
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...
VisionLabs , a facial recognition, data analysis and robotics company that is a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, has created an open-source computer vision platform using funding from Facebook and Google. The Russian company created the new resource...
Surfancy, a project designed by Skolkovo resident SensArt to turn any surface into an interactive touch screen, has been named the winner of an accelerator programme run by MEGA, the chain of giant malls across Russia owned and operated by IKEA. As well as...