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IIDF teams up with mobile operators to create IoT consortium

December 26, 2018

The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian) has teamed up with high tech company GS Group and mobile operators Megafon, MTS and VimpelCom (Beeline) to create an Internet-of-Things (IoT) consortium in Russia. Tele2, another major mobile operator, expressed interest in potentially joining the consortium in a further stage, Russian news agency TASS reported. The …

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Russian virtual reality platform Fibrum to measure itself against Google’s Daydream

July 2, 2016

Next month Russian startup Fibrum, a developer of virtual reality headsets and applications, will launch a VR platform to bring together gamers, as well as game and VR headset developers from different countries. The platform will be made available in English and Russian. Users will be able to download applications for their VR headsets directly from the Fibrum Platform. They …

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Russian inventor builds a real version of the city scanner drone from Half-Life 2

March 2, 2017

Valentin Demchenko, a video blogger who lives in Saratov, Russia, has created a real-life version of the police  drone that can be seen in the computer game “Half-Life 2.” Demchenko says the project took two months to complete. He made the 80 cm-long, 55 cm-high device from scratch using carbon fiber and expanded polystyrene as well as flight controller DJI …

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Dmitry Grishin raises second fund to “pursue trillion-dollar opportunity”

April 12, 2016

Yesterday Grishin Robotics, an international venture capital firm launched in 2012 by Mail.ru Group’s CEO Dmitry Grishin,  announced a new $100 million fund to invest in the USA and Europe. Originally focusing exclusively on robotics, the firm is now expanding its investment focus to such areas as collaborative and material handling robots, AI and data analytics, industrial IoT and …

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3D-printed Siberian satellite ready for space launch

March 15, 2016

Researchers at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia have “printed out” a fully-functional small satellite on a 3D printer. Christened ‘Tomsk-TPU-120,’ the spacecraft will soon be taken to Baikonur, the main Russian launch center in the territory of neighboring Kazakhstan. A cargo rocket will then take it to the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit. …

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Reading without eyes: a Russian device gives hope to the blind

February 29, 2016

Inspired by an aunt’s suggestion, a Russian engineer invented a learning device that teaches the blind by converting electronic text into Braille. This digital tutor might soon reach the international market. A little over a year was needed to create the digital tutor, See All, which converts electronic information into Braille. The device consists of two modules. One is …

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Innovative Russian-British secure platform for wearables presented at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress

February 25, 2016

Yesterday British startup TediPay and Russia’s CardsMobile presented their first joint solution at the Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona. Christened ‘Wildcard,’ this open platform allows banks and transport companies to offer their services via a range of wearable devices: smart and hybrid watches, bracelets, smart rings and more. The platform addresses four mass market applications — …

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GS Group presents first Russian digital TV set-top box for Ultra HD offerings

February 7, 2016

Last month GS Group, an internationally oriented Russian tech company whose key activities include developing technologies for digital TV, presented the GS A230, “the first Russian digital TV set-top box to support the Ultra HD (4K) standard.” The first Ultra HD television channels in Russian are already available to subscribers of Tricolor TV, a leading digital TV provider …

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Skolkovo startups to showcase their gadgets at Las Vegas CES 2016

February 7, 2016

Several startups from Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, will present their technologies in this year’s edition of the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. Starting from tomorrow Jan. 6, tech lovers will be able to discover these devices in the Eureka Park zone of this international tradeshow. Focusing on VR technologies, wearables …

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Skolkovo teams up with Panasonic and KAMAZ in search for battery breakthrough

February 16, 2016

Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow,  is teaming up with two of its biggest industrial partners in Panasonic and truck-maker KAMAZ in a search for the next big breakthrough in battery technology. The three powerhouses of innovation this week launched a competition among Skolkovo residents – also open to …

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Russian-made GPS dog tracker spots your pet’s location and monitors obesity

May 19, 2015

A group of Russian developers has come up with a gadget that many dog owners have been dreaming of. Spotty, a sleek 4.5-centimeter aluminum chip attached to a dog’s collar, identifies a pet’s location using GPS coordinates and a 3G modem, monitors its physical activity with the help of accelerometer and transfers real-time data to …

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