Hardware, Electronics, Robotics

Anti-counterfeit nanoparticle technology developed for banknotes

October 24, 2014

Professor Sergei Maximovsky, a researcher from the Moscow-based Lebedev Physical Institute, has potentially developed a new protection system for banknotes, the Russian daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported. A number of international patents have been obtained for the innovation, including US, Japanese and Chinese patents.  At the heart of the technology is the application of a specialized …

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Russia’s biotech innovations are more Star Trek than Star Wars

October 22, 2014

Although information technology was once the darling of Russia’s innovation sector, a sanctions-flecked economic slowdown is pushing manufacturing and biomedicine startups to the fore — and thankfully the results are more “Star Trek” than “Star Wars.” At a startup contest at last week’s Open Innovations Forum organized by the Russian Venture Company and Moscow’s Center for Innovative Development, inventors of robotized industrial solutions and new biomedical products took most of the …

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Luxoft acquires US Internet-of-Things solution provider Radius

October 10, 2014

Earlier this week Luxoft, a NYSE-listed provider of software development services and innovative solutions and a part of Russia’s IBS Group, announced the acquisition of Radius Inc., a US-based provider of Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions. Radius delivers modern enterprise solutions across mobile, cloud, data and API technologies for large corporations to “help them capture, manage, and …

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Impulse VC invests in smart home startup Contactless

October 6, 2014

The Russian venture fund and incubator Impulse VC has announced an investment of “up to $300,000” in Moscow-based Contactless (in Russian: Beskontaknye Ustroistva), a startup that is developing a home and industrial automation platform called the Wiren Board. “The final investment amount will depend on company performance,” Valeria Zhigacheva of the fund’s press service told …

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IIDF to support big data, wearable tech and Internet-of-things startups

December 26, 2018

Last week the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian), the $200 million fund launched last year to support Russian Internet startups, announced the extension of its coverage to such new fields as big data, wearable devices and the Internet-of-Things. “We did quite a lot of research on technological trends across the world. Cloud, social and …

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Kremlin weighs options for isolating Russian Internet in event of crisis, fuelling concerns from rights activists and free-minded bloggers

December 21, 2018

On October 1st, the Russian Security Council will discuss issues of internet protection in emergency situations, such as military action or mass protests inside the country. In addition, the possibility of handing over domain administration functions to the state will be considered. While the Kremlin insists that the main purpose of the meeting is to …

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China’s Beidou and Russia’s GLONASS to harmonize standards

September 22, 2014

China and Russia could form a single navigational space in the coming years. Negotiations on the harmonization of equipment standards for the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system and the Chinese Beidou system started this summer. The most important direction for the planned extensive cooperation is the harmonization of standards, especially at the level of navigation …

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Far from international turmoil, Intel teams up with Russian technoparks and continues Skolkovo partnership

September 18, 2014

Last week, Intel signed a strategic collaboration agreement with the Association of Technoparks in the field of High Technologies, a nonprofit partnership created in 2011 to implement the Russian government’s strategy for innovative development. The collaboration encompasses the organization of joint initiatives to develop corporate management systems, enhance HR management techniques, adopt best practices, improve …

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Skolkovo launches ‘More than Moore’ contest to rethink computer hardware

November 19, 2014

Skolkovo is dangling $400,000 worth of prizes in front of the tech startups that can revolutionize computer hardware – and possibly take humanity beyond a simple doubling of processor power every two years. Moore’s law states that computer capacity increases twofold roughly every 24 months, a loop we’ve been stuck in for half a century.

Russia and China consider creating joint nanotech fund

March 2, 2017

Rusnano, the Russian state-owned corporation dedicated to nanotechnologies, has proposed the creation of a joint Russian-Chinese fund for investing in this sector, head of the corporation Anatoly Chubais stated. According to Chubais, the proposal was made at a recent session of the first Russian-Chinese commission on investment cooperation between Russia and China. “The idea is …

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Russia’s microelectronics industry gets steam

September 1, 2014

Set up in 1992, Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) is a private microprocessor manufacturer which has attained a good record in the development of the Russian IT industry. The company develops high-performance universal Russian microprocessors and computer systems and its team members have, over the years, participated in the creation of several generations of powerful …

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Electronic prayer mat invented in Dagestan

August 27, 2014

A startup from Makhachkala in Dagestan, southern Russia, has come up with an out of the ordinary new product. Developer Eldar Klyichev has designed an electronic prayer mat, which helps Muslims to keep track of rakats, the ritual movements and words used during Islamic prayer. The electronic prayer mat is equipped with touch sensors which help …

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