Robots for diagnostics and surface sanitation, a chat-bot integrated into the MOH’s online portal for providing public consulting support during the pandemic, contactless terminal for body temperature measurement, pass control management platform to be...
The fourth annual CyberDay conference devoted to cybersecurity got underway at the Skolkovo Technopark on Friday, the 30 th anniversary of the establishment of Computer Security Day. Skolkovo Foundation chairman Arkady Dvorkovich speaking at the opening...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed an agreement with Singapore’s Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on Wednesday during the ASEAN-Russian summit in Singapore. Alexander Khanin (left), CEO of Skolkovo...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has tasked his government with creating infrastructure for driverless transport in Russia, bringing the country a step closer to the appearance of autonomous vehicles on its roads and motorways. Volgabus and KB Avrora's...
Skolkovo’s resident cybercrime sleuths Group-IB have helped Russia’s Interior Ministry catch a gang of hackers suspected of using a Trojan virus to steal money from more than one million bank accounts via mobile banking apps, the ministry said Monday...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a strategic business cooperation agreement with the Russian division of Japan’s Panasonic Corporation during a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the island nation on Friday. Skolkovo vice president...
President Vladimir Putin inspected life-changing medical solutions made by resident companies of the Skolkovo Foundation at the Strategic Initiatives Forum in Moscow on Thursday. President Vladimir Putin greeting a little girl with a prosthetic hand while...
The director of Algeria’s National Agency for the Promotion and Development of Technoparks (ANPT) visited the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on Friday, two days after the agency and the Skolkovo Foundation signed a memorandum of cooperation during a visit...
Hong Kong’s startup scene is one of the fastest growing in the world, and the global financial centre has been dubbed Asia’s FinTech hub for the explosion of tech solutions for financial services seen there during the last few years. A delegation...
Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, the U.K.'s main telecom companies joined forces to launch a mentoring programme aimed at encouraging women to pursue STEM careers, as professions based around science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
With a proposed $4 billion boost and new regulations facilitating the introduction of driverless cars, the U.S. may be leading the headlines in the race to get fully autonomous transport on the road. But Russian projects are well underway, and last month, Rusnano...
If children throughout the 20 th century delightedly developed their engineering skills by playing with Meccano, a Russian startup hopes that 21 st -century children will find its robotic constructor kits no less fascinating – and educational. Roman...
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. ...
Panasonic opened its R&D Center at Skolkovo during Startup Village on Tuesday, opening a new chapter in electronics research cooperation between Russia and Japan. The Panasonic R&D Center at Skolkovo Technopark Office Center. Panasonic signed...
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...
Skolkovo played a pivotal role this week in building trade bridges between Russia and Argentina, entering a dozen startups in a bilateral Moscow business forum held as part of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez’s official visit to the capital. ...
The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with China’s Cybernaut Investment Group to create a $200 million venture fund to stimulate high-tech innovations of mutual interest. Skolkovo's senior VP for innovations Vasily Belov and Russian Deputy Prime...
The second foray outside the confines of Russia begins Tuesday for the Startup Tour, which visits the Belarusian capital of Minsk in its quest to uncover and develop the top startups in the CIS. The National Library of Belarus in Minsk, venue for the...
The Startup Tour may have left Russia’s Far East, but the Skolkovo Foundation remains in the region for the foreseeable future with the Vladivostok branch beginning its official operations on Monday. The winners in Vladivostok. Photo: sk.ru ...
Skolkovo IT cluster resident Ingenious Team was one of a dozen startups to demonstrate their innovations to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Kremlin meeting this month. President Vladimir Putin hosts young innovators in the Kremlin. Photo: kremlin...
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...
The Olympic Committee of Russia is to build a 50,000 sq. m. research and development center at the Skolkovo Innovation Center by 2018 under an agreement signed Friday by the two parties. Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov, left, and Skolkovo Foundation...