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• ITMO Team Wins RoboCup Asia Pacific 2025

  The team of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab became the winner of the international RoboCup Asia Pacific 2025. Their robotic saxophonist Fantastic Robby Brown was named best in the creative category RCJ OnStage Secondary. This year’s contest took place in Abu Dhabi and drew over 700 participants from 20 countries.

  17.11.2025

• Build-It-Yourself: ITMO Researchers Propose Using Chemist Robots for Laboratory Experiments

    Chemists and roboticists at ITMO University have built and tested a robotic platform designed to automate chemical experiments. The robot can independently perform routine operations involving reactions between organic compounds without human involvement. The system is more affordable and versatile than industrial robotic solutions, as it is assembled from 3D-printed components and features open-source software. The robotic chemist has already helped discover that certain chemical reactions speed up in the presence of polymers — a finding that expands opportunities for creating piezoelectric materials and targeted drug delivery systems. The results of the study were published in Materials Horizons.

  21.10.2025

• Student Spotlight: Muhammad-Bilal Muhiuddin, Pakistan

  When Muhammad-Bilal left Pakistan for St. Petersburg, he brought with him a restless curiosity about how things work and how they can work better. Now a Master’s student in automation and control at ITMO, Muhammad-Bilal has found himself in a city that feels both historic and futuristic, where he can dive into research projects while also wandering around Nevsky Prospekt with his friends, soaking in the architecture and flavors of his new home. For him, studying abroad isn’t just about mastering new concepts; it’s about learning patience, resilience, and how to build a life that blends passion for technology with everyday joy.

  28.08.2025

• ITMO Team Takes Gold at RobotChallenge 2025

  The team of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab became the winner of the international RobotChallenge 2025 – their robotic saxophonist Fantastic Robby Brown became the best in the creative category FreeStyle Senior. This year’s RobotChallenge in Beijing brought together over 5,000 participants from 42 countries.

  19.08.2025

• ITMO PhD Student Triumphs at ALCOS 2025

  Nikita Mikhalkov, a PhD student at ITMO, won the 15th international Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Control Systems (ALCOS 2025) for inventing an algorithm that improves small drone navigation. The event was also attended by other ITMO researchers, who chaired six sections and presented 13 reports published in IFAC-PapersOnLine.

  21.07.2025

• Student Spotlight: Ayan Ali, Pakistan

  Picture this: a small robot rolls through a virtual maze, thinking its way around corners. Behind the scenes is Ayan Ali, a Master’s student at ITMO – quietly watching, tweaking, and reprogramming. Raised in Pakistan, Ayan is an individual driven by his love for machines. In this interview, he shares with us what it means to build tech that’s both intelligent and human.

  10.07.2025

• Cost-Efficient Next-Gen Exoskeleton by ITMO Students Goes Into Production

  A team of students from ITMO University have launched the production of mobile modular exoskeletons. These devices reduce the strain on the wearer’s musculoskeletal system and allow them to safely carry objects weighing up to 50 kilograms. The technology should prove helpful for construction workers, rescue specialists, delivery workers, and tourists such as hikers. With support from the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE), the developers have already begun commercial small-batch production of the exoskeletons and are in negotiations with potential clients.

  29.04.2025

• Lectures, Projects, Robots: St. Petersburg Hosts Finals of I Am a Professional Contest

  The final stage of the national student competition I Am a Professional recently took place in St. Petersburg, bringing together participants from 10 Russian universities. The students presented their projects to a jury featuring experts from Sber, ITMO, Navio, Robowizard and StarLine – and visited the laboratories of the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics to acquaint themselves with new engineering solutions. 

  24.04.2025

• School Students From St. Petersburg Make History at FIRST Tech Challenge

  Sputnik Original, a team of school students from St. Petersburg, has come in third at FIRST Tech Challenge, an international robotics competition – and became the first Russian winners in the event’s history. 256 teams from the USA, Europe, South Africa, Canada, Australia, China, and other countries participated in the contest. The finals took place in Houston (USA).

  23.04.2025

• Theater & Robots: ITMO and Alexandrinsky Theatre to Launch Joint Educational Laboratory for Directors and Artists

  ITMO University and the Alexandrinsky Theatre are launching the joint educational laboratory Theater: Algorithms of the Future for stage directors and interdisciplinary artists. The project’s goal is to analyze how advanced technologies can be used in theatrical performances. Over the course of two months, participants will attend lectures and work on their plays with the program’s curators. The best works will be performed at the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre and ITMO’s Art & Science Center. The deadline for applications is April 14.

  04.04.2025