Right after the finish of Skolkovo Robotics 2016 conference, nine startups from Skolkovo Robocenter are heading straight to Paris to take part in the Innorobo exhibition of innovative robotics that will take place on May 24-26, 2016. Innorobo is Europe’s biggest robotics trade fair. It presents the latest achievements in robotics and technologies of the future from around the world.
Promobot at Startup Village conference
One of Skolkovo’s companies - Vision Labs - was selected as one the 6 finalists of the Innorobo 2016 competition. The starПодпись.tup will pitch its facial recognition technology, software and cloud solutions to an investor panel at Innorobo on the first day of the international event.
Albert Efimov, Head of Skolkovo Robotics Center, commented: “As the Russian robotics specialists are very strong in the development of unique software, the jury’s choice of VisionLabs’ facial recognition program is not a surprise. Especially considering that the team has already achieved good results – it’s one of the world’s top three commercial facial recognition systems.”
The stands of Skolkovo companies can be found on the floor-map (they are situated right across the entrance of the exhibition). The list of Skolkovo exhibitors at Innorobo is the following:
Promobot: is Russia’s leading manufacturer of welcome robots for high-traffic visited places. Promobot Robots help people find places, answer clients questions, broadcast promotional materials, increase sales and collect information, assisting in navigation. Promobot conducts research in the field of robotic mechatronics, facial recognition and the human voice. In January 2016, Promobot’s co-founder Oleg Kivokurtsev was included on Forbes’ list of 30 influential people under 30.
VisionLabs is a world leading visual recognition company. The company develops software and solutions for the finance, retail, video surveillance and security sectors. VisionLabs is one of the 6 finalists of the Innorobo Championship. VisionLabs is one of the six finalists in Innorobo.
CyberTech Labs makes 3TRIK robotic constructor kits for children that can be used in education.
Wicron makes the Webot telepresence robot, which allows users to observe the robot’s surroundings from their location via the internet, and to interact with people in those surroundings accordingly. Wicron was formed by two postgraduate students of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech).
Lexy makes desktop robots that can understand human speech, with the aim of facilitating voice command-activated household appliances and retrieving information from the internet when prompted by a human voice.
SyboTech LLC specializes in developing of control systems for autonomous mobile robots and integrating them for variety of service tasks (such as patrolling and surveilliance, transports and logistics operations, cleaning of office and industrial buildings, interacting with humans, education and research).
ROBOT LTD is an easy-to-control personal robot, endowed with an active stereo vision system as well as with the ability to recognize objects and to determine the coordinates of the object. The kinematics of the robot control system, enables to perform simple physical tasks (to bring, carry, hold or open) in one or two clicks of the user. It is designed to be a member of the family as it is endowed with qualities such as love, curiosity and fear that determine its behaviour.
Kleiber Bionics makes a range of affordable bionic prosthetic hands for amputees that match any imported competitor in terms of functionality and quality.
Neyroseti Ashmanova produces Puzzle, a system that recognizes objects in images and video and can understand what is happening in them.
About the Skolkovo Foundation
The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with the objective of accelerating Russia’s transformation from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. To achieve this objective, the Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, composed of more than 1,400 high-tech startups, Skolkovo Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech) - a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together, these entities establish a vibrant ecosystem of technology innovation and entrepreneurship. Fifty global corporations including Boeing, Cisco Systems, EADS, GE, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, Samsung, and Panasonic have already recognized the opportunity Skolkovo presents by signing R&D partnership agreements with the Foundation. The cumulative revenue of Skolkovo’s startups through December 2015 reached $1 billion. They brought in more than $270 million in investment, creating 17,500 jobs and filing over 1,800 patent applications along the way. By 2020 over 2 million square meters of residential and office space will be built in Skolkovo with 35,000 people working daily in the Innovation Center. For more information: http://www.sk.ru/en
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