Skolkovo resident robot-maker Promobot has landed a contract worth $56 million with a U.S. company, the Perm-based robotics company announced Tuesday. Promobot's Alexei Yuzhakov (left) shakes hands on the deal with USLG's Paul Spivak as Promobot...
Having conquered Russia, China, the U.S. and about a dozen other countries, Skolkovo resident company Promobot has sent its first robot to Australia, where the friendly promotional robot is currently taking part in the Commonwealth Games . People pose...
It’s a big year for Promobot , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster. The Perm-based company has just released version 4 of its cheeky service robots, whose antics have made headlines around the world and which are already on...
Several resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation took their products and technologies to Las Vegas last week for CES , one of the world’s biggest consumer technologies exhibitions and conferences, which ran from January 9 to 12. Promobot robots...
Seven Skolkovo startups have launched crowdfunding campaigns as they compete against each other in a reality TV show on Russian TV titled “An Idea Worth a Million.” Motorica has made 3D-printed cable-operated prosthetic hands for more than...
Hot on the heels of other major French retailers scouring the Skolkovo innovation city for new technologies, a team of talent scouts from the Decathlon Group chain of sports stores met with a range of Skolkovo startups on Monday with a view to adopting their...
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...
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...
Five Russian robots have left their homeland to go and work in China as a group of pioneers who will soon be joined by more than 100 of their compatriots. The robots were made by Promobot , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster...
Almost half of the top 50 Russian startups in 2015 selected by Russia Beyond the Headlines, a news agency publishing Russian news in foreign languages, are resident companies of the Skolkovo Foundation. A total of 24 Skolkovo startups were included in the...
The co-founder of a Skolkovo resident startup has been included on Forbes’ list of 30 influential people under 30 for his company’s work creating what the magazine describes as “friendly, intuitive, promotional robots.” Oleg Kivokurtsev...