R&D

Russian company claims to have created world’s first 4D radar for driverless tech

December 19, 2018

Moscow-based Cognitive Technologies said its new 4D radar for driverless cars surpasses humans in analyzing road conditions. The first prototype can determine the location, shape and speed of objects on the road in any weather conditions, the company announced. “It’s like a ‘third eye’ for the driverless vehicle,” said Olga Uskova, president of Cognitive Technologies, …

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Yandex.Taxi experiments driverless vehicle in Russian tech city, celebrates first 1,000 rides

November 6, 2018

Self-driving taxis are making their first steps in Russia with a new experiment led in Innopolis, a brand new tech city under completion on the outskirts of Kazan, 800 km eastwards from Moscow. In just two months, from Aug. 25 to Oct. 28, 1,000 autonomous rides with passengers were completed, claims Yandex.Taxi, the company behind …

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Skolkovo develops R&D and venture projects with Chinese players

October 27, 2018

Earlier this month, as the Open Innovations forum gathered thousands of Russian and foreign participants on the outskirts of Moscow, the Skolkovo Foundation signed agreements with Chinese players. As reported by Skolkovo news portal Sk.ru, the Russian tech hub agreed with Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to set up a joint innovations center. The R&D effort …

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PicsArt to open AI lab in Moscow

October 12, 2018

PicsArt, a Californian startup with Armenian roots, is opening a an AI lab in Moscow. The company is planning to hire 20 local engineers and invest up to $2 million in the facility. The lab will help PicsArt develop  AI approaches for photo filters, AR cameras, and advertising. Such companies as Microsoft, SAP and Samsung also …

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VKontakte develops object recognition and artificial intelligence tools to boost social commerce

October 2, 2018

VKontakte (VK), Russia’s leading social network and a property of Mail.Ru Group, is developing a technology for object recognition in photos and video recordings, with a special button to purchase the corresponding products in just one click. The project was unveiled at a recent meeting with investors and analysts, the TASS news agency reported last …

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Crypto ticket to the future: Will Russian Railways run on blockchain?

August 27, 2018

For two years already, Blockchain technology has inspired corporate projects in a variety of industries in Russia – from banking, to capital markets, to universities, to cite just examples. Russian Railways (RZD) is also embracing the trend, with a blockchain-based digital trading platform already operating since last year and new projects under plans. The state monopoly is aiming to manage the repair …

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UK company launches Russian-to-English “Neural Machine Translation” with 90% accuracy

July 11, 2018

In late June SDL, a UK-based developer of language translation technologies, announced that its solution, a next-gen Neural Machine Translation 2.0, has learned to translate from Russian to English with “over 90% of its output labelled as perfect by professional Russian-English translators.” “A machine running SDL NMT 2.0 can now produce translations of Russian text …

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Sberbank and National Settlement Depository to test new ICO technology

November 26, 2018

As Russia prepares to regulate ICOs and cryptocurrencies, Russia’s central bank launched this past April a “regulatory platform” to experiment and implement new financial services and technologies that require legislative changes. This platform, which involves other state institutions and industry associations, will be used in the near future to test an ICO technology. The first transactions …

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Startup with Russian roots aims to build “universal AR infrastructure” and deploy its “Digital Land” across the world

March 19, 2018

A startup named Arcona is developing a “universal augmented-reality infrastructure,” aiming nothing short of building “a blockchain ecosystem” and “an AR layer to merge together real and virtual worlds.” Arcona says its project makes use of the latest scientific achievements in the fields of computer vision, prototyping and neurobiology. It is building upon the technologies developed …

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Russian, Saudi Arabian and Australian scientists release new software to radically improve oil extraction efficiency

March 15, 2018

Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University have developed a software that calculates the permeability of 3D models of geological formations. The program, designed with support from Saudi Arabian and Australian research institutions, allows for a dramatic improvement in the efficiency of the exploitation of hydrocarbon deposits. . The software takes …

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Russia to develop next-gen quantum computer

February 26, 2018

Four Russian government-backed organizations — Vnesheconombank (VEB), the Foundation for Advanced Research (FPI), VEB-Innovations and Moscow State University — and the non-profit ANO Digital Economy have agreed to develop together a 50-qubit quantum computer. The agreement, which was signed on the sidelines of the recent Russian Investment Forum in Sochi, establishes a research and engineering framework to create a multi-qubit …

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