Group-IB, a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that specializes in the prevention of cyber-attacks, has announced the official opening of their global headquarters in Singapore. In addition to the region-wide promotion of cutting-edge technology that...
Rusbase, an independent website devoted to technology, business and investment, published a list on Tuesday of the top five most interesting biotech startups in Russia, and all are residents of the Skolkovo Foundation. An ExoAtlet pilot demonstrates the...
There is one topic that seems guaranteed to create a traffic jam along the usually uncongested road leading to the Skolkovo innovation centre, and that topic is blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This week, bitcoin approached a value per coin of $10,000, and...
Russia’s first commercial research biobank, National BioService , opened a brand new laboratory at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday. The National BioService lab at the Skolkovo Technopark will be used for both the company's own research and...
Pharm-Sintez.Lab , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s nuclear cluster, has developed a system for detecting rare forms of cancer in Russian patients. Lev Voloznev, CEO of Pharm-Sintez.Lab, pictured in his lab at the Skolkovo Technopark...
A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying two satellites made by Dauria Aerospace successfully lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9.36 a.m. on Friday. The Soyuz launch vehicle being readied for takeoff at the Baikonur cosmodrome this...
If your new year’s resolution is to learn a foreign language, you have more options for doing so than ever before, from traditional lessons to home study options and mobile phone apps. But you might not have considered using a technique based on computer...
Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest and deepest lake, is in danger. For several years now, the water near the shores of the vast Siberian lake has been turning green with algae, and satellite images reveal that that is only a small part of a much bigger problem...
The Internet of Things (IoT) – when objects such as buildings, vehicles and gadgets communicate with one another via censors and a communications network – is one of the fastest-growing trends in business right now, with more than half of U.K. businesses...
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...
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...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Skolkovo is starting to produce tangible results, despite being less than five years old. From left: Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, his advisor Pekka Viljakainen, and Prime Minister Medvedev. Photo: sk.ru ...
Sk.ru continues its series on innovators in the metals industry, speaking this week to one of the founders of Skolkovo resident FerrAl-Tech, a high-tech startup that is developing a novel way of removing the oxygen from steel during the steelmaking process...
A new 3D face recognition system developed by Skolkovo IT cluster resident Vocord FaceControl has proved flawless in testing, the company says. The biometric face recognitions system Vocord FaceControl 3D is built upon 3D machine vision, and during testing...
A 30 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation is helping a team of Russian scientists develop potentially one of the most effective drugs yet to fight cardiovascular disease – the primary cause of death in Russia and the wider world. Dmitry...