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...
Строящиеся в иннограде Сколково объекты осмотрела делегация руководителей КПРФ. Лидер компартии Геннадий Зюганов пообещал Фонду всемерную поддержку и в интервью Sk.ru продемонстрировал прекрасное знание деталей сколковского проекта Руководители КПРФ и ее...
Выпускники Сколтеха придумали алгоритм, позволяющий пассажирам экономить на такси. Для этого надо быть готовым проехаться не по самому короткому маршруту и с попутчиком, которого видишь в первый раз. Предложение адресовано в первую очередь студентам –...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev extended his congratulations to Skoltech’s first graduates on Wednesday, ceremonially awarding the first diploma at Startup Village. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, somewhere in the melee of graduates. Photo...
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...
One of the world’s leading authorities on personal robots has delivered two lectures at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, promoting his hypothesis that the robot society of the future may come sooner than we think. Professor Hiroshi...
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, world renowned for his research in robot clones, is to hold two special guest lectures at the Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology. The Japanese robotics scientist from Osaka University, who was the subject of the...
«Богатства ищут ради образования, образования – ради богатства» , - пишет работающий в Беркли русский историк Юрий Слезкин, характеризую современную эпоху. Его книга «Век Меркурия» написана не об образовании и даже не о богатствах...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center on March 20-22 hosted the third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference, one of the biggest events of its kind in Russia. More than 2,000 registered for the three-day bonanza , which bought together robot developers, company...
The third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference was a runaway success, attracting a wide array of participants from all corners of the planet and, critically, encouraging the discipline to flourish domestically. The March 20-22 event at the Skolkovo...
A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the first time in its five-year history. Almaty - the...
Russian-Finnish collaborative research that scientists hope could usher in a new age of consumer electronics took a first tentative step this month, as Skoltech students traveled to Helsinki to study nanomaterials. Photo: skoltech.ru The joint initiative...
Sergei Krikalev, the man who has spent the most time in space at 803 days, has joined the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology as a professor of practice. Krikalev giving a talk at Skoltech as a guest in September. Photo: sk.ru Krikalev...
В технопарке «Сколково» прошла встреча студентов Сколтеха с представителями Фонда «Сколково». Команды Easy Wallet, Dream Beamer, Skoltech Projects, Vox, а также разработчики ПО для трехмерных задач рассказали о своих проектах представителям...
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...
Top minds from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology gathered in the Hypercube last week to present research trends in the fields of brain evolution, renewable energy and quantum physics. Skolkovo is aiming to become a top international science...
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...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is opening its doors for prospective students next week. Skoltech is a key component of the Skolkovo innovation ecosystem and was established in 2011 in partnership with the Massachusetts...
«Только сомнения и вопросы стимулируют креативность». Так говорит человек, имеющий право выражаться афористично, чтобы это не казалось банальностью: швейцарский воздухоплаватель и изобретатель в третьем поколении Бертран Пикар. Создатель Solar impulse...
Участие Сколтеха в Startup Village было очень заметно. И не только потому, что сотни посетителей толпились вокруг площадки, на которой студенты Сколтеха запускали беспилотники собственного производства. Не менее ощутимо было интеллектуальное участие профессоров...