Even in the most optimistic scenario, the coronavirus disease outbreak in the Russian Federation will last for at least two months, Georgii Bazykin, Skoltech Professor, Chair of the Molecular Evolution Sector, IITP RAS, believes According to his forecast...
More than 150 students, developers and scientists working in the field of neuroscience spent a sleepless weekend at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) on November 16-18 for a neuro-hackathon , racing each other in teams to find solutions...
Not so long ago, a prostate cancer operation would cost the patient 1.5 litres of blood and entail a two-week stay in hospital. Now the average patient loses just 20 millilitres of blood, and three days in hospital are usually sufficient. This drastic change...
How does a country produce new generations of engineers equipped with the skills that are in demand in the real world once they graduate from university? Nearly two decades ago, a group of engineering schools set about tackling the widening gap between engineering...
The occasions when it’s justifiable to trot out the well-worn opening lines of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”) are few and far between, but their...
“Will robots take over?” and “Will robots take our jobs?” are the most frequent robot predictions searched for on Google. The internet, alas, does not always have accurate answers. But if anyone knows what the future holds in store for...
Janusz Bialek and Ksenia Letova of the Skoltech Center for Energy Systems are quoted in this BBC article on the future of energy. Every day, our species chews its way through more than a million terajoules of energy . That’s roughly equivalent to what...
There was a distinct feeling of déjà vu at the second InSpace forum held in Moscow on Friday, where one year after the original event , the main players in Russia’s space industry pondered the same existential questions that had dominated...
The Skolkovo innovation centre has been shortlisted as a Best Futura Mega Project at the MIPIM Awards 2017 , a prestigious ceremony held as part of the MIPIM international property exhibition held annually in the French resort of Cannes. The decision was...
Dr. Rupert Gerzer came to work at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) one year ago as an associate director of the research university’s Space Center, but as a qualified medical doctor, he does not hide the fact that his heart...
As the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference got underway at Skolkovo on Monday, representatives of innovation centres from around the world exchanged visions and experiences of how to create a successful innovation...
You have seven days to think up an original idea for a tech startup. You are put in a team with several other people whom you haven’t met before and whose area of expertise is not the same as yours. After a week, you will present your project to a team...
A new English-language journal titled REACH – Reviews in Human Space Exploration was launched at the end of last month with Rupert Gerzer, a professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology , as its editor-in-chief. Professor Rupert...
Finding new ways of commercially exploiting satellites already in orbit, while creating economic value in the process: this is the goal of the research being carried out by Alessandro Golkar, Interim Director of the Space Center and Associate Professor at the...
“The Shaolin Temple itself is a 1,500-year-old startup,” unexpectedly declares Shi Xing Mi, a Shaolin monk dressed in a mustard-coloured martial arts outfit. “It may sound like an oxymoron, but in Shaolin culture, being a startup is not a...
A presentation of Elon Musk’s headline-grabbing vacuum train, a drone race and business leadership tips from a Shaolin monk are among the highlights of this year’s Startup Village, the annual open-air large-scale conference for tech entrepreneurs...
Leading experts in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence from around the world gathered at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Friday for the annual Skolkovo Robotics event. The annual Skolkovo Robotics event attracted both human robot-makers...
Robots of all shapes, sizes and functions will be busting out of the labs and taking to the streets of the Skolkovo innovation centre on May 20 for the annual Skolkovo Robotics event, attended by robots – and their creators – from all over Russia...
Nineteen years after he went into space, Dr. Reinhold Ewald still can’t eat broccoli. “It was the most mineral-rich vegetable available in space, and I had to eat tons of it,” the German astronaut recalled with laughter as he gave a lecture...
The Moon Village – a permanent lunar base station – should be a truly international affair, and Russian villagers are more than welcome, European Space Agency director general Johann-Dietrich Woerner told professors and students of the Skolkovo...
Robots are poised to cause millions of people to lose their jobs, government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta wrote on Monday. Some people fear that jobs are just the tip of the iceberg, and that robots represent a threat to the existence of the human race. ...
In an article last week, the Financial Times wrote that the concept of the BRICS group of emerging economies was dead, arguing that Russia and Brazil’s dependence on commodities exports had led to them being usurped by tech-heavy economies Taiwan and...
Four years after the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) was founded, the startup university has finally moved into its own purpose-built campus, and has succeeded in luring accomplished Russian diaspora scientists back to Russia after periods...
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...
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...