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...
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 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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
People are fast becoming accustomed to laptops and smartphones talking back, delivering information about the weather, movies, restaurants in that unmistakably computerized monotone. Ask for an email update every five minutes and that’s exactly what you’ll...