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...
Hundreds of Moscow students packed out a lecture theater this week to hear what most of them already believe: Pharma’s Cool. The lecture hall at Moscow’s Sechenov University of Medicine. Photo: sk.ru The three-week lecture series targeting...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
In building the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, it would be an “extraordinary waste of energy” to simply create another MIT, the president of the fledgling Russian innovations university, Ed Crawley, has said in televised remarks....
Researchers at Skoltech Center for Advanced Structures, Processes and Engineered Materials (ASPEM) claim they may have produced the strongest 3D printed composite material in the world. Antonov holding up the composite material. Photo: skoltech.ru ...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is publishing a database of its students’ startup businesses online to promote transparency and boost exposure. The Skoltech Projects website. Photo: projects.skoltech.ru The “Skoltech...
Adaptive toys for rehabilitation and a robotic assistant surgeon were among 13 winning innovations at the first stage of the Russian Startup Tour in Rostov-on-Don. More than 100 projects from the southern city and surrounding region competed for a place...
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...
Space cooperation between Russia and India has come a long way since it began in 1975, when a Soviet space rocket launched India’s first satellite, Aryabhatta, and in 1984 the first Indian cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma flew into space aboard the Soyuz. Russian...
The most creative period in the academic year of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology kicked off Tuesday as students ditched their textbooks to learn everything from snowboarding to stock trading. The independent studies period (ISP) window is...
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...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) was recently founded in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Almost half of first year students are already involved in startups. Edward Crawley, President of Skoltech...
Skolkovo has teamed up with Tel Aviv University to research projects of common interest, expanding the Foundation’s reach in the academic world. Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg signed a memorandum of understanding this week with Prof...
A delegation of scientists, educators and ministry officials from India paid a visit Wednesday to the Skolkovo Foundation, on a fact-finding mission to study the opportunities available for Indian students and startups in Russia. Led by Inder Jit Singh of...
It’s 1975, and at a Soviet research institute in Leningrad, Andrei Kozlov is onto something. The biomedical scientist has just defended a PhD thesis, impenetrable to the uninitiated. Something about how genes are expressed in tumors and normal tissue...
Getting a faculty job with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is simple, provost Raj Rajagopalan, tells sk.ru in an interview. Prove you have the innovative qualities required by leaving your comfort zone and moving to Russia to be part of something...
As first bell rings out for the final year of the inaugural intake of students at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, provost Raj Rajagopalan tells sk.ru that in some ways they have already passed with flying colors. Skoltech, a university...
Skolkovo needs broad support across Russian government and society to inspire similar projects and foster a true culture of entrepreneurship, the renowned American engineer and scientist Arden L. Bement has told sk.ru in an interview. Bement, 82, is a former...
The screen lights up with a blissfully happy face of a three-year old girl who has just managed to build a molecule model from colored sticks. British scientist Harold Walter Kroto and his two colleagues received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery...