The Skolkovo Foundation has joined forces with the U.K.’s AMR Centre, a private-public initiative launched in 2016 to support and accelerate the development of new antibiotics, to combat the global problem of antimicrobial resistance. Skolkovo's...
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...
A proposal sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to use artificial intelligence to improve Russia’s legal system made the headlines this week, but this process is in fact already underway. Robot-lawyers, the use of blockchain to create smart contracts...
The first shared lab space in Russia for life sciences and biotech startups opened its doors at the Skolkovo Technopark on Wednesday with a mission to help budding biomed entrepreneurs test their theories and turn their ideas into a commercial company. ...
Russia’s official position on the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining is that it is outlawed by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which declares that space is “the province of mankind,” and that its use and exploration must “benefit...
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...
Russia’s wealth of fossil fuel resources has inevitably made it easy for the country to ignore renewable energy sources (RES). In recent years, however, several government initiatives have been launched to develop this sector, and at the REENCON-21 International...
Skolkovo startup DRD Biotech has produced a working prototype of an express test that can determine in just a few minutes whether a person has had – or is at near-term risk of having – the most common kind of stroke. Svetlana Dambinova has...
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...
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...
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...
If scientists invented an anti-ageing pill that would help you live to the age of 120, would you take it? Think carefully, because if it sounds like science fiction, it’s not. Ageing is a treatable disease like any other, according to some scientists...
A 3D printer for use in space is the end goal of a joint project between two residents of the Skolkovo Foundation – the companies Sputnix and Anisoprint – and Moscow Polytechnic University. Fyodor Antonov, director of Anisoprint., a resident...
A four-year-old boy from the Russian city of St. Petersburg got a life-changing birthday present last week when he was given a functioning prosthetic hand designed to resemble his favourite cartoon hero. A video of the little boy, Fyodor, using his bright...
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...
“What’s Russia famous for? The Kalashnikov – the AK47,” says Vladimir Mironov, chief scientific officer at 3D Bioprinting Solutions . “Well now we have a different motto: not shoot to kill, but shoot to heal – using a tissue...
Skolkovo’s grant committee has signed off on a 30 million ruble grant for space and telecommunications cluster resident startup HelgiLab, with the same sum being put up by its founders to take the environment-scanning company to the next level. ...
Skolkovo resident SEMAT has secured 50 million rubles in investment from Russian-Czech company MTE Group to research electrical discharge machining, a deal signed at Startup Village. Karavaev and Volkov, in light suits, during the signing. Photo: sk.ru...
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...
In the first of a series of interviews, Sk.ru discovers what makes innovators tick in the less glamorous but no less critical field of metallurgy. Recycling steelmaking slag the EcoSlag way. Photo: Amir Shakurov EcoSlag is a Moscow-based firm that...
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...
Skolkovo biomed cluster resident 3D Bioprinting Solutions has announced the successful printing of a mouse’s thyroid gland. 3D Bioprinting Solutions unveiled Russia's first bioprinter in October. Photo: 3D Bioprinting Solutions If confirmed...
Video surveillance firm VOCORD, a resident of the Skolkovo IT cluster, has unveiled a new traffic monitoring system called Cyclops able to collect evidence of violations across four lanes simultaneously. Cyclops. Photo: VOCORD The product, which...
It took his grandfather’s brush with death to turn Leonid Glushchenko into an innovator. He was a fresh-faced, 21-year-old medical student at a university on the Volga River when the pensioner developed a life-threatening blood clot. Saving Pyotr...
NCL, a resident of Skolkovo’s biomed cluster, has unveiled a prototype laser lancet – a contactless device that punctures the skin to harvest capillary blood samples. The lancet is intended for use by professional medical personnel for the collection...