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• From Science to Business: ITMO University Hosts UMNIK Finals in St. Petersburg

  The participants who had passed the first stage got the chance to present their projects in front of the jury in person, while applicants from other cities will have the opportunity to do this during an online meeting. 

  21.09.2020

• Master’s Programs in Robotics at ITMO University

  What unites digital control systems, mathematical modeling, and digital production systems and technologies? All of these are promising fields that are studied in the Master’s programs in Robotics at ITMO University. How is the training structured? Do the programs offer internships in Russia and abroad? Our illustrated series will answer all of your questions.

  26.08.2020

• Sberbank and ITMO University Open Second Round of Applications for Research Projects in Robotics

  The application is open for first year students of ITMO’s Master’s program in Robotics. Those accepted will join the teams working in the fields of control systems and machine learning, computer vision, engineering and human-machine interface development. Read on to learn more.

  20.08.2020

• Environmental-Monitoring Water Drones to Be Tested on St. Petersburg Rivers

  In the future, the floating robots, which were developed by the staff of the company Airalab together with ITMO University engineers, might appear in the water bodies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as negotiations are already underway. Learn more in this article by ITMO.NEWS.

  28.07.2020

• Farshid Amini: When I Look at the Sky, I Imagine a Bigger World

  After doing some research on Russia, Farshid Amini, a native of Tehran in Iran, came to take a Master’s program in Robotics at ITMO University. He’s currently in his first year and enjoys the teaching approaches of his professors and St. Petersburg’s old parks, historic streets and calm rivers. Inspired by the world around him, Farshid strives to make it a better place.

  18.06.2020

• ITMO University Hosts One of the Biggest Conferences on Control ECC 2020

  ITMO University has hosted the European Control Conference, one of the world’s largest conferences on control theory. This year, due to the pandemic, the conference took place online. However, according to the organizers this had a positive, rather than negative effect on the number of attendees. 

  15.06.2020

• Schneider Electric Becomes Key Partner of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Master's Program

  ITMO University and the international power equipment manufacturer Schneider Electric have entered a partnership agreement. According to the document, the partners will jointly develop and launch a corporate Master’s program that will develop the project based learning approach by involving the faculty and students in next-gen projects at modern manufacturing facilities.

  11.05.2020

• ITMO Roboticists Developing a Financially Independent Robot Artist

  A team of PhD students from ITMO University’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics are developing a fully autonomous robot artist. The project aims to demonstrate the possibility of creating autonomous systems using the principles of robonomics. ITMO.NEWS got in touch with developers Ivan Berman, Alexei Ovcharov, and Vadim Manaenko to learn about their project, the ethics of robot-human interaction, and their collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.

  16.04.2020

• Gaka-Chu: The Robot That Dreams of Being an Artist

  “Everyone’s familiar with trying to make a living with art. I bet they’ve never known a robot with that dream,” says Gaka-Chu. A retired welding robot, it is working to be financially independent by creating art and selling it online. But what is it that makes its art real?  

  10.04.2020

• Me & My Robot: ITMO Roboticists Feature in a Documentary by American Filmmaker Mark Decena

  The members of ITMO University’s robotics team from Creative Robotics Lab have been put in the spotlight in the documentary by an American documentary maker and director Mark Decena. Me & My Robot follows the young roboticists as they compete for gold at the World Robot Olympiad. The documentary has been presented at CPH:DOX, one of the largest and most prestigious international documentary festivals currently being held online. You can watch the film for free until April 5. 

  02.04.2020