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...
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...
Ahead of his appearance at the Innorobo Keynote in Paris in May, Albert Yefimov, head of the Skolkovo Foundation's Robotics Centre , gave an interview to TheDisruptory, a website devoted to disruptive innovations from around the world. Image: thedisruptory...
The co-founder of a Skolkovo resident startup has been included on Forbes’ list of 30 influential people under 30 for his company’s work creating what the magazine describes as “friendly, intuitive, promotional robots.” Oleg Kivokurtsev...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev cast his eye over innovations from residents of the Skolkovo Foundation this week at the Russian Arms Expo in Nizhny Tagil. Belyakov, left, showing Medvedev the Skolkovo stand. Photo: sk.ru Medvedev, who created...
Clinical trials of Russia’s first medical exoskeleton have begun in a Moscow hospital, marking the latest step in the Skolkovo-backed innovation’s battle to reach the market. A patient at the Pirogov Center testing out ExoAtlet's exoskeleton...
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...
There was double joy for Skolkovo resident robotics startup KB Aurora at this year’s RoboCross competition in Nizhny Novgorod – victory for its student-run affiliate in the main category, and top spot for the main company in a spinoff contest run...
Alan Turing may have died 61 years ago, but the legendary British wartime code-breaker will take his place alongside Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and F1 driver Mika Hakkinen as star guests of Startup Village on June 2-3. A computer-aided image of Alan...
In business, they say, failure is the first step on the ladder to success. If that’s true, Daria Kaftan is headed in the right direction. Daria Kaftan, the 24-year-old rock-chick innovator and familiar face in the Skolkovo ecosystem. Photo: sk.ru...
Skolkovo’s grant committee has approved a 5 million ruble minigrant for IT cluster resident KB Avrora after the robot developer won the Robocross-2014 unmanned vehicle competition last June, according to company director Stanislav Gol. The KB Avrova...
A robot developer from Skolkovo’s IT cluster will compete for the chance to represent Russia at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup world finals after emerging victorious in the national stage of the innovations competition. Lexy's Dmitry Suvorov...
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...
Skolkovo is fast uniting the entire Russian robotics industry due to the synergies offered inside the ecosystem, says the foundation’s vice president and executive director of the IT Cluster, Igor Bogachev. The Promobot contract signing 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...
The third stage of the Russian Startup Tour concluded this week in Nizhny Novgorod, where two startups won million-ruble investments and six were invited to Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The finalists and winners from the pitch sessions in Nizhny...
The Skolkovo International Robotics Conference promises to be bigger, longer and more compelling than ever before this year, with around 1,200 participants expected at the Hypercube for Russia’s top robotics event in March. Registration for the...
A Skolkovo resident tech company is to exhibit its latest prototype exoskeleton, a contraption designed to enhance the physical abilities of the human body, at the Russian State University Science Festival this week. The startup, ExoAtlet, is to put on display...
This weekend sees the second Robonight in Moscow, a celebration of machines through films, exhibitions and even a robodisco – where, perhaps, robots will do the robot. Robonight is an initiative by the Skolkovo Foundation and the Skolkovo Open University...