The Intelligent Mine project by Industrial digital technology provider, Zyfra, won the IoT Solutions Awards 2019, which recognise the best international projects developed in the field of industrial internet in the last year. Intelligent Mine is a comprehensive...
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...
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...
Wallarm , a Skolkovo resident cybersecurity startup, has attracted $2.3 million in investment upon completing the prestigious Silicon Valley seed accelerator programme Y Combinator. Three quarters of the Wallarm team pictured at Y Combinator in Mountain...
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...
Two startups from the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have raised over $10 million in investment in their devices designed to make carrying out everyday tasks more convenient. ComfortWay , which provides travellers with access to mobile networks at...
The founders and directors of Skolkovo resident startups make up nearly one-third of a list of “ 20 young and promising heroes of tomorrow ” published by the RBC news agency’s magazine on Thursday. Six of the 20 inventors and entrepreneurs...
Young IT specialists will turn their hand to battling the forest fires that have ravaged Russia in recent summers by gathering this weekend for a hackathon aimed at developing technology to monitor their outbreak. An emergency worker battling a blaze...
NFWare , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation that develops network software that enables the high-speed processing of internet traffic, has raised $2 million in venture funding, the IT company said in a statement Thursday. The round was led by...
Navigine , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes indoor navigation and tracking systems, has attracted $400,000 in investment from a syndicate led by Finnish fintech company Innovestor. The deal with Navigine is Innovestor’s first...
Oil producer Gazprom Neft is to open a research and development centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow under an agreement signed Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg (left)...
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...
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...
Wallarm , a Russian cybersecurity startup, has been selected to take part in Y Combinator , one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent seed accelerator programmes. The accelerator is investing $120,000 in the startup. The IT company, which uses machine...
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...
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...
Just a few years ago, a machine that would scan a printed page of text and then print it in another language would have seemed like science fiction. Now it’s a reality offered by Xerox Easy Translator Service , which used the technology of Skolkovo resident...
Wells Fargo has won a Most Innovative Feature Award for its use of a mobile biometric authentication system developed by Skolkovo resident Speech Technology Center (STC) . The U.S. bank’s mobile app for commercial account customers, which uses STC’s...
The world’s best face recognition algorithm is made by Skolkovo resident Vocord , according to the MegaFace platform, which rated it above Google in one of its rankings this week. Vocord's algorithm was developed to identify faces in crowds...
The face recognition algorithm of Vocord , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, has been named the world’s most effective in its category, beating competitors including Google. In the ranking to test various facial recognition...
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...
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...
Two residents of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster have teamed up to work on a secure communications system using quantum cryptography technology devised by Russian Quantum Centre (RQC) in conjunction with existing telecoms infrastructure developed...
Two Skolkovo resident startups were included in the TekhUspekh (TechUp) rating of fast-growing Russian tech companies announced at Moscow State University last week. Eidos ( Ensim ), which makes surgery simulators for training surgeons and medical students...
For any Russian company with international aspirations, the Asian markets are the modern Klondike - and not just because strained relations with the West have made it more difficult for some Russian enterprises to do business there. Asia will be the future...