The Chinese manufacturer has purchased the patents and hired the team of designers from Vocord Company, a current resident of the IT cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. The deal was confirmed to Sk.ru by Vocord. Neither party would disclose the cost of...
The Chinese manufacturer purchased the patents and hired the team of designers of Vocord Company, resident of the IT cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. The deal was confirmed to Sk.ru by Vocord. The parties will not disclose the price of the deal. The...
What if you could buy a piece of land in a historic location, like Trafalgar Square or Times Square, and build whatever you wanted on it? Well now you can – at least, in a digital format – thanks to Skolkovo resident Piligrim XXI . An example...
Skolkovo resident VisionLabs and the smart building systems developer Alphaopen have launched a smart home system that uses face recognition technology to enable residents to enter their building without a key and to reach their floor without pressing a lift...
Playkey , Russia’s first cloud-based decentralized gaming platform and a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised more than $10.5 million in an ICO (Initial Coin Offering). The team behind Playkey, a cloud platform that allows users...
The directors of three Skolkovo startups won awards at two ceremonies this week for their innovative tech developments. Group-IB head Ilya Sachkov at a previous EY awards ceremony. Photo: EY. Ilya Sachkov, head of the cybersecurity company Group...
Russia’s biggest lender, Sberbank, has acquired 25.07 percent of shares in Skolkovo resident startup VisionLabs , which has been ranked one of the world’s best face recognition technology companies. VisionLabs founder and CEO Alexander Khanin...
Fibrum , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster that makes virtual reality headsets, games and platforms, has developed the world’s first chain of virtual stores for the Chinese ecommerce platform AliExpress. Customers...
The proximity of Vladivostok to Asia is palpable throughout the port city in Russia’s Far East, from the abundance of right-hand drive cars imported from Japan – a growing number of them electric – and currency exchange points displaying rates...
Guide dogs have been used by blind people for nearly half a millennium, and in that time, no more trustworthy solution has been found to reliably lead a blind person through the numerous potential hazards that surround them. But training a guide dog is a slow...
Skolkovo resident Promobot , famed for its friendly robots that have been known to escape , unveiled its third generation model at the Open Innovations forum held at the Skolkovo Technopark on Wednesday. Version 3 is as flirty as its predecessors - but now...
The parking gods can be cruel and capricious, as anyone who has ever spent half an hour or more circling their destination in a city centre looking for a space knows. A new app aims to relieve drivers in Moscow of this particular stress by not only showing...
Konstantin Deblikov deftly extends one black, bionic finger to rub the side of his nose as he talks. The casual observer might think that the young journalist from Voronezh has complete mastery of his bionic hands, but his dexterity belies the struggle that...
Even before Pokemon GO fever struck the world, 2016 had already been dubbed the year of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) by tech-watchers due to the number of new devices hitting the market this year. Then Nintendo’s Pokemon-themed AR game took the...
ExoAtlet , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes medical exoskeletons to help disabled people walk, has received official registration as medical equipment for its systems. ExoAtlet pilot Sergei Rubinshtein walks with his wife Galina...
Dnevnik.ru , an educational social network made by a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, is among the winners of the EdTechXGlobal All Stars Rise 20 awards for education technology. The winners of the EdTechXEurope All Stars Awards...
Skolkovo is to become a testing centre for driverless buses with the setting up of a research and development centre by innovative bus-maker Volgabus . The driverless bus developed jointly by Bakulin Motors Group and Skolkovo resident KB Avrora. Photo...
The 2016 Startup Tour , Skolkovo’s roaming search for promising science and tech startups around the country, has visited its final destinations for this year. The winners from all the 13 cities visited by the tour will meet at the Skolkovo Innovation...
Two underwater robot projects were among the three winners of the Degree of Freedom competition for unmanned vehicles and driver assistance systems that will now be awarded mini-grants from the Skolkovo Foundation. GNOM's underwater robots are designed...
A mobile phone store in northern Moscow has employed a robot developed at Skolkovo as a promotional tool to assist with customer queries and boost trade. Promobot at work at the Beeline store in Moscow. Photo: Vimpelcom The robot was produced by...
IT cluster resident PayQR has developed an app for mobile phones for paying housing and public utilities bills - and even traffic fines – from the comfort of the home. The program is available on iOS and Android platforms. In September, a new national...
Skolkovo’s grant committee has signed off on a 30 million ruble grant for space and telecommunications cluster resident startup HelgiLab, with the same sum being put up by its founders to take the environment-scanning company to the next level. ...
IT cluster resident Ivideon has received a $4 million boost from Impulse VC to take its video-streaming service global. Screenshot from Ivideon website The startup’s cloud platform allows users to beam video to any device using almost any...
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...
IT cluster resident Artquant, which develops software solutions in the field of financial technology, has released a new product that allows users to build and adjust stock portfolios according to market dynamics. The solution, named Portfolioand.Me,...