A 3D printer for use in space is the end goal of a joint project between two Russian companies – Sputnix and Anisoprint – and Moscow Polytechnic University. The device will be able to print construction elements of microsatellites using composite materials while in orbit, its creators say. The project combines the experience of Anisoprint in the …
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Last week in China, Russian startup Wicron was awarded first prize in the robotics category of the Global Happiness Technology Challenge, the Skolkovo Foundation reported yesterday. The startup presented a remote presence bot, christened ‘Webot,’ which allows users to observe the bot’s surroundings from their location via the Internet, an interact with people in those surroundings accordingly. A …
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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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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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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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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 — …
The Russian military makes wide use of 3D printing to create physical objects. Thus Electromashina, a part of the Uralvagonzavod corporation, develops solid objects made of polymer materials. In the summer of 2015, an industrial 3D-printer was introduced to create prototypes and low-volume parts. “The 3D-printer helps to speed up the trial production. When the designer …
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Earlier this month Ukrainian-American startup Petcube, which has developed an interactive device to keep people connected with their pets, announced that it raised $2.6 million in its second round of funding. The round was led by Almaz Capital, an international venture fund with Russian origins, with participation from AVentures Capital, a leading Ukrainian fund, and Y Combinator, …
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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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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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Baikal Electronics has announced plans to launch the production of Russia’s first computer processor for civil use, the Baikal-T1, early next year. Targeting both domestic and international customers, the Russian processor will cost about $60 apiece, reported RBC, a Russian business publication. The two-kernel processor is reported to use a 32-bit MIPS Warrior kernel. The developer is expected to …
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Russian venture fund Titanium Investments has injected $1 million in MUV Interactive, an Israel-based developer of innovative technologies for wearable interfaces. The investment, which will help the startup start serial production of Bird, its first product, took the form of a convertible loan, Russian business daily Kommersant reported today. The transaction brings the total amount raised by the startup …
