Last week Rusnano Sistema Sicar, a Russian private equity fund, announced that it will invest $6 million in Apis Cor, a startup originated from Siberia which has designed a 3D printing technology for the construction industry. The Apis Cor 3D printer is a mobile robot is a mobile robot capable of constructing buildings using fine-grained fibre concrete with special additives. It can build …
Krasnoyarsk scientists at the Reshetnev Siberian State Aerospace University (SibSAU) have developed a new method of using wax in 3D printing. Products for metallurgy can now be made from ordinary candle grade paraffin. “Unlike classical technology that requires fairly costly materials such as silicone or ceramics, this technology enables the use of cheap expendables, for …
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Grishin Robotics, an international venture capital fund with Russian roots, has led a $14 million round of financing for Wonder, a Los Angeles-based startup which is developing an “all-in-one and one-for-all-gamers” product with a focus on virtual reality (VR) features. The startup makes much ado about what it says will be a “new type of …
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On June 27-28 DELIVER, an invite-only event dedicated to international e-commerce logistics and European policy making, will hold its second edition in Berlin’s Funkhaus. This even will gather prominent retailers from all continents with a focus on Europe’s largest e-commerce markets (UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Benelux, Nordics). The organizers expect some 800 delegates from 50 …
As the Russian currency lost nearly a half of its value against the US dollar since 2014, it is now cheaper to produce tablets, smartphones and other hi-tech devices in Russia than in China. Developers are also attracted by convenient logistics and a skilled workforce. As a result, a number of Russian gadget developers are beginning …
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Students at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) are working on a robot that will be able to fill up holes in the roadbed, TPU has announced. To identify and address a problem, the robot will be expected to “see” with a machine vision system which will help it recognize the key elements on any road, whether …
Researchers from MIPT have found a solution to the problem of overheating of active plasmonic components. These components will be essential for high-speed data transfer within the optoelectronic microprocessors of the future, which will be able to function tens of thousands of times faster than the microprocessors currently in use today. In the paper published in ACS Photonics the researchers have …
Metrosha the robot first made an appearance at the end of last year at the Luzhniki station of the Moscow Central Ring rail line, where he wished passengers a happy new year. Now he will appear from time to time in the city’s metro stations to meet and greet passengers on public holidays, the Moscow …
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Intel has acquired Soft Machines, a Santa Clara-based chip designer operating in the USA, India and Russia. The US corporation bought the stakes of the existing investors, which included two Russian state-owned corporations, the fund of funds RVC and nanotech giant Rusnano, along with AMD, Samsung and other companies. Revealed by the media in September last year, the deal …
Forty friendly Russian robots made by Promobot are to head to Turkey, after a sales agreement was signed with the Turkish company LUXRA TR. The promotional robots, which are designed to provide members of the public with helpful information in busy places and which are already hard at work in Russia, China, the U.K. and …
Aviasolutions (“Aviaresheniya” in Russian), a manufacturer of industrial drones based in Kazan, Tatarstan, has attracted around €1 million from undisclosed individual investors. The deal was reported last week by Russian online publication Firrma.ru. Thanks to this capital injection, the company will start small-scale manufacturing of ‘FLYP,’ their latest industrial drone model for commercial purposes as pilot projects …
While no country currently has a law to regulate the rise of robots, a resolution passed yesterday by the European parliament calls for EU-wide legislation in this field. According to the resolution, such legislation should encompass, in particular, liability for the actions of robots including self-driving cars, and an ethical framework for robot development and deployment. However, European lawmakers rejected …
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