Many people first heard about ToSky on June 2, 2019, when the company launched a toy Lada into space with a figure of Dmitry Rogozin, general director of the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos), inside. To do so, the startup from Tomsk (3,000 east of Moscow) used an aerostat, basically a high-altitude balloon. But Nikita …
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Bees in the wild are facing grave threats to their existence, and while some of the reasons include pesticides and poor nutrition, the mystery has not been completely solved. Today, most farmers have to buy or rent bee colonies, which contributes to a rise in food prices, according to the U.S. Bee Informed Partnership. American …
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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 …
RVC, Russia’s national fund of funds for innovation, the Tomsk State University (TSU) in Siberia and DI-Group, a private Russian management company for VC funds, are expected to ink an agreement in May to set up a joint venture fund, Interfax-Siberia reported, citing TSU Rector Eduard Galazhinsky. “The university must become a full-fledged player in a …
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The Skolkovo Foundation will set up three venture capital funds to provide additional sources of funding for startups, said its president Victor Vekselberg in late October at the Open Innovations forum. Funded by the Russian government, the Skolkovo Foundation manages the completion of an international tech hub on the outskirts of Moscow. “Now we’re creating a daughter …
Novosibirsk State University (NSU) and Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) are teaming up to create a joint university venture fund of up to 900 million rubles (nearly $14 million at the current exchange rate) over five years. The partners expect to attract funding from both private and state-owned organizations. The new fund will focus on …
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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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Just one year after Russia saw the launch of its first hardware-oriented accelerator, DI Group, a Tomsk, Siberia-based high tech group, has launched a “venture fund-accelerator” targeting startups in the fields of smartphones, electronics, gadgets and Internet projects. The acceleration program of up to six months encompasses the industrial design and the marketing aspects of each …
The Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radio Electronics (TUSUR) and Keysight Technologies, a US company, have plans to open Siberia’s first scientific and educational center in Tomsk in early 2015, portal Globalsib.com reported. TUSUR is reported to have already launched this past fall its new master’s degree program focused on the automation of the …
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Tomsk, Russia — If there were ever a place for a cutting-edge innovation hub, this snowbound Siberian outpost with a population of 500,000 probably wouldn’t be the first choice. Deep in the Russian hinterland, it stands at the dead end of a train line off the Trans-Siberian railway. Its airport services only Moscow, a few …
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Scientists at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) are working on a new 3D printer they claim will enable the printing of body components for spacecraft and submarines, the TPU website announced. According to Alexei Yakovlev, head of the TPU’s Institute of High Tech Physics, “Five different technologies have been developed to produce nanopowder and nanopowder-based …
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Researchers at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia are developing new telecommunications systems to monitor and control next gen self-contained underwater robots, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported last week, citing TPU’s vice rector for science and innovation, Mikhail Sonkin. In this effort the Siberian University is collaborating with the Institute of Oceanic Technology Problems, …
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