At the end of July, during the SIGGRAPH 2016 Forum in California, students from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) presented a new system for human interaction with drones. Light Air is a technology that helps the user direct a drone by just stepping on an image that is projected onto a surface. This new system received the Laval Virtual Award, a prestigious prize …
Illustrating Russia’s and China’s willingness to strengthen their ties in the field of high technologies, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign fund, has agreed a partnership with several Russian and Chinese industry players to develop and manufacture medical robots. According to the agreement, which was annonced Friday last week at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a …
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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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3D sensor developer Occipital Inc. announced last week that it raised $13 million in Series B funding. Grishin Robotics, a fund launched in 2012 by Mail.ru group CEO Dmitry Grishin, participated in the round along with Intel Capital, Shea Ventures and existing investor Foundry Group. In 2013, following a Kickstarter campaign, Occipital launched “the Structure Sensor,” a 3D sensor that scans objects …
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Russian startup Oriense is developing glasses that help blind and visually impaired people navigate around obstacles. The product, which was pitched to Samsung last year, is scheduled for release this year, reports the Skolkovo Foundation. The Orsens 3D Camera combines with GPS technology to analyze the environment and notify the user of obstacles with the help of …
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Russian company Wicron has attracted 5 million rubles (approximately $80,000 at the current exchange rate) of investment from Ashmanov & Partners, a leading Russian web and SEO agency. The transaction took place in December 2014, but was announced only last month. This funding came in addition to a grant for the same amount offered by …
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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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