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...
ROBBO, a resident of Skolkovo Foundation's IT Cluster, finalized the process of registration of ROBBO Japan. As early as next spring Tokyo and Fukuoka can see the emergence of ROBBO Classes. These are engineering classes that teach children robotics, programming...
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...
VIST Robotics , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, last week unveiled its autonomous industrial loading and transport system for the mining industry at a testing ground in Belarus. Video: Sk.ru. The Skolkovo company...
Every day, the headlines warn us that robots will soon replace humans in more and more jobs. But in many areas of industry, experts believe that the best work is a joint effort by man and technology. This is the thinking behind a competition held at the...
Skolkovo resident robot-maker Promobot has landed a contract worth $56 million with a U.S. company, the Perm-based robotics company announced Tuesday. Promobot's Alexei Yuzhakov (left) shakes hands on the deal with USLG's Paul Spivak as Promobot...
Guests of selected Moscow hotels will be able to check in upon arrival more quickly than ever before thanks to a new system using face recognition technology devised by Skolkovo resident VisionLabs together with self-service systems developer Invend. ...
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...
Skolkovo resident startup ExoAtlet , which makes rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has raised $5 million in investment to expand its business to Europe and beyond. The funding is being provided by the Korean company Cosmo...
The U.S. may be streets ahead in the development of driverless cars, but there is one area where Russia could still overtake, Russian technology experts believe. Their secret weapon? That tried-and-tested historical ally, General Winter. For it’s one...
Skolkovo resident ExoAtlet , the inventor of rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has set its sights for expansion on Japan, where it is setting up a joint venture with its South Korean partners and investors. Dennis Ahn...
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...
Despite the 9,000 kilometres between them, the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow and Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University ( FEFU ) in Vladivostok have a lot in common. They were both created in 2010, when four of the Far East’s leading...
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...
Nine innovative resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation are heading to London next week to exhibit their products at Bett , a major international EdTech trade show taking place from January 25 to January 28. The giant education trade fair is attended...
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...
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...
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...
Leading experts in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence from around the world gathered at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Friday for the annual Skolkovo Robotics event. The annual Skolkovo Robotics event attracted both human robot-makers...
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...
Those who predicted the Skolkovo Robotics International Conference would once and for all put the Skolkovo Robotics Center on the map were right. Literally. The Robot Report's Global Map. Russia’s premier robotics hub has now been included...
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...
On March 20-22, the Hypercube will host Russia’s biggest robotics event, the Skolkovo International Robotics Conference. Photo: sk.ru Around 1,800 people are registered for the three-day bonanza, which brings robot developers, company CEOs...
Microsoft Research is to award grants to high-potential projects that develop machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, the company has announced. Machine learning is the ability of computer programs to adapt and teach themselves new capabilities...