On May 4, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev requested that driverless cars be tested on a segment of the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway by November this year. The project involves the Federal Road Agency (‘Rosavtodor’) and state company Russian Highways (‘Avtodor’) as well as a working group that includes Yandex — the Russian search giant which unveiled its …
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AgroDroneGroup, a Russian startup that uses drones and computer software to closely monitor the condition of soil and crops, has raised 25 million rubles (some $440,000) in investment from the Russian-Belarusian Venture Investment Fund (RBF Ventures). The news was reported in late March by the Skolkovo Foundation, which cited Firrma. The deal, in which the …
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Unmanned vehicles were unleashed on the snow-covered roads of the Moscow Region earlier this month “for the first time in history,” claims Yandex.Taxi, the taxi hailing service of the Russian Internet search company, which held the experiment. Yandex.Taxi wanted to check how their automatic cars fare during the winter when snow can obscure road markings, …
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Aspiring female entrepreneur Olga Uskova made her dream come true last week with the launch of her first self-driving harvester. The machine was successfully tested in the Rostov Region in the south of Russia. As a child in the Soviet era, entrepreneur Olga Uskova was inspired by a film that showed a futuristic tractor working …
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According to a resolution published last week, the Russian government intends to create an IT and telecom infrastructure for driverless transport across the country’s roads and highways. According to the plan, the rollout will start with large cities as well as the north-south and east-west transport corridors. Artificial intelligence solutions will be used in public …
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Yandex.Taxi, the on-demand transportation service of the Russian Internet search giant Yandex, has just unveiled the prototype of its autonomous car project. The prototype has been developed as “a step towards a comprehensive set of driverless technologies for application across a wide range of industries.” The driverless car incorporates Yandex’s own technologies, such as mapping, …
On March 30 the Moscow-based technopark Kalibr will hold Russia’s first international event on autonomous vehicles. Top experts from Russia and abroad will be there to share knowledge, network and discuss partnerships. The conference will discuss the latest innovations in this field and feature the following topics: What are the latest trends in the field of autonomous vehicles in Russia? …
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We all know that cars are getting smarter, and driverless cars are looming on the horizon. The day may not be too far off when we can just summon a driverless car, hop in and relax, leaving the car to deal with all the tasks that drivers currently have to juggle, from navigation and safe driving …
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“Matrëshka,” the first electronic driverless bus in Russia, was revealed in late October in Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. Designed to carry up to eight passengers, the bus was showcased at the annual international forum of innovative development, “Open Innovation.” The bus is controlled by computers and equipped …
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Moscow-based Cognitive Technologies said it’s ready to release a pre-commercial version of an advance driver assistance system with artificial intelligence, or ADAS, for Russia’s KAMAZ truck. ADAS qualifies as Level 1 according to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), which means that it can detect road signs and warn about a possible collision with another …
Driverless truck system will cruise Russian roads in 2017 Read More
Russian law-enforcement officers fear that unmanned cars may be used as instruments of crime in the near future. “In 20 years, conventional cars will be replaced by autonomous vehicles just like they once replaced horses,” said Alexander Bykov, chief of the State Road Safety Inspectorate’s Road Patrol Service department. “However, no one has studied the potential future dangers.” …
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Russia’s first flying taxi, called SerVert SV5B, will combine the functions of a plane and a helicopter. The cost of transporting one person over 100 kilometers will be between $10 and $15. The vehicle is being developed by a Russian aviation startup, Aviaton, which has just secured more than $16 million in state investment. This …
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