Several resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation took their products and technologies to Las Vegas last week for CES , one of the world’s biggest consumer technologies exhibitions and conferences, which ran from January 9 to 12. Promobot robots...
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...
A friendly Russian robot made by Skolkovo Foundation resident startup Promobot has sworn to protect British football fans attending the FIFA World Cup in Russia next year. The robot, named Alantim, read on the internet that many British fans were reluctant...
Vocord , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, has been ranked the world’s best face recognition engine for the third time in the MegaFace Facescrub 2016-2017 challenge . The company’s Vocord-deepVo3 algorithm topped...
ExoAtlet, a Skolkovo resident startup that makes medical exoskeletons that enable wheelchair-users to walk again, has obtained certification of its product in South Korea, meaning its exoskeletons can be purchased by rehabilitation clinics and individual users...
The fifth annual Skolkovo Robotics event opened at the Skolkovo Technopark on Friday with a greeting from space. Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky addresses the Skolkovo Robotics conference from onboard the ISS. Photo: Sk.ru. Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who...
Ekaterina Bereziy, the CEO and co-founder of Skolkovo startup ExoAtlet , has been named one of the Young Global Leaders Class of 2017 compiled by the World Economic Forum. “She is changing the lives of those with spinal cord injuries with her robotics...
A robotic pet sitter designed by an offshoot of a Skolkovo resident startup has raised more than double the amount it was seeking, just a few days into its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Pebby consists of a smart collar and a remote-controlled...
A friendly talking robot made by Skolkovo resident startup Promobot is to brighten up the journey for weary commuters on the Moscow metro system. Metrosha the Promobot can chat to passengers, and take and print photos. Photo: Moscow Mayor official site...
Forty friendly Russian robots made by Skolkovo resident startup Promobot are to head to Turkey, after a sales agreement was signed with the Turkish company LUXRA TR. The promotional robots, which are designed to provide members of the public with helpful information...
ExoAtlet , a Skolkovo resident that makes medical exoskeletons that enable disabled people to walk again, won the RBC media group’s award for the Breakthrough of the Year in an awards ceremony in Moscow on Tuesday evening. The startup received the...
Questions surrounding artificial intelligence and whether or not it constitutes a threat to mankind have dominated the headlines this year. Now the Skolkovo innovation centre is gathering together Russian and international experts in this field to discuss the...
A Russian Cybathlon Federation was officially set up on Tuesday to develop the creation of technology to help disabled people, with the Skolkovo Foundation among the signatories of the founding document. The first international Cybathlon was held in Zurich...
ExoAtlet , a Skolkovo startup that makes medical exoskeletons for the rehabilitation of disabled people, has started clinical research into the use of its exoskeletons to help people with multiple sclerosis. An ExoAtlet exoskeleton being demonstrated...
Promobot , the Russian robot-maker that sprang to international fame last month when one of its robots was reported to have escaped from the testing ground in a fit of wanderlust, has made its first deal with the U.K. on the back of the escapade. IR77...
VisionLabs , a facial recognition, data analysis and robotics company that is a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, has created an open-source computer vision platform using funding from Facebook and Google. The Russian company created the new resource...
A team from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) won the Russian stage of the Eurobot 2016 amateur robotics competition at the weekend. The team, named reSET, will now compete in the international final of the competition next month...
Skolkovo resident startup VisionLabs has been selected from among more than 300 companies to become one of 12 participants of ChallengeUp! , an international startup accelerator run by Intel, Cisco and Deutsche Telekom. Participants of the ChallengeUp...
A Skolkovo resident startup was awarded first prize in the Global Happiness Technology Challenge in China last week for its Webot telepresence product. Webot, a remote presence bot, allows users to observe the bot’s surroundings from their location...
Albert Yefimov, director of the Skolkovo Foundation’s Robocentre , is to head a government working group that will produce a plan for the development of Russian robotics. Skolkovo Robocentre head Albert Yefimov. Photo: Sk.ru. The working group...
Skolkovo resident company VisionLabs has been selected as one of just six projects in the final competition of Innorobo , Europe’s biggest robotics trade fair. VisionLabs will now pitch its facial recognition technology, software and cloud solutions...
Five Russian robots have left their homeland to go and work in China as a group of pioneers who will soon be joined by more than 100 of their compatriots. The robots were made by Promobot , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster...
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...
Exactly three years to the day that a meteorite fell to Earth in the Urals region of Chelyabinsk, the Skolkovo Startup Tour visited the city as part of its nationwide quest to find promising tech startups and give them a helping hand. Winners of the Chelyabinsk...
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...