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• ITMO Team Wins First Place at National Robotics Olympiad

  From June 23 to 25 the final stage of the Russian Olympiad in Programming of Intelligent Robotic Systems was held for the fourth time in the city of Innopolis (Republic of Tatarstan). The Olympiad features contestants from all over the country and thus serves as the Russian qualification round for the World Robot Olympiad. ITMO University’s team and their forest pathologist robot Forester secured the first place in one of the competition’s categories.

  30.06.2017

• Vladimir Lumelsky On The Future Of Robotics: An Open Lecture At ITMO University

  We all would have liked it if robots could do all the routine work, wash the dishes and do lots of other things we can't or don't have the time for -  and it might seem that our dreams are about to become reality. Now, we already have robots like Da Vinci who can perform surgeries with better precision than any human would do, or the Roomba vacuum-cleaner robot who can get rid of dust in your apartment while you are taking a stroll. Yet, we still can't trust robots with everything -  in fact, a robot still can't bring a glass of water to an aged person or fold washed clothes, notes Vladimir Lumelsky, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During an open lecture at ITMO University, he shared about what can help robots operate under the conditions of uncertainty and perform things humans easily do.

  01.06.2017

• Digitally Immortalized: How the Solovetsky Monastery is Finding a New Life in Virtual Reality

  Digital preservation of cultural heritage is becoming more and more trendy in both Russia and the world in general. The abundance of grants and commercial projects in this area signifies just how much the idea of digital preservation of historical, religious and cultural heritage of humanity is popular with the people; for that reason, numerous historical objects are now being memorialized in digital format. The Solovetsky Monastery, included in the UNESCO World Heritage list, is no exception. For the past year, ITMO University staff, in collaboration with the scientists at the Solovetsky conservation area, have been working on creating a digital representation of the monastery, including a virtual 3D model of the monastery as it appread in 16-17 centuries, as well as an interactive map and virtual tours on the monastery grounds using Video 360 and Unity 3D technologies.

  30.05.2017

• Science Fest: Growth of VR, Functional Food and Why Humanity Will Always Return to Earth

  Virtual reality, the science of the brain, human development and space – these were the topics on the first day of Science Fest that took place this weekend at creative space “Lumier Hall”. The visitors attended lectures about the future of VR, prospective professions, functional food and first-hand accounts about the experience of being in space. In addition, the creative space held workshops on robotics, augmented reality, game development and other topics. 

  29.05.2017

• Art Debut: ITMO's Robotics School Team Wins RoboCupNationals

  ITMO's Robotics School Team got 1st place in the recent RoboCup Russia Open-2017 that took place in Tomsk. Under the guidance of their trainer Igor Lositskiy, staff member for the Department of Computer Science and Control Systems, the team built and programmed a robot named Seldon who plays ukulele, sings songs and waves to its fans. Seldon won over the hearts of the RoboCup OnStage's jury, the category where robots had to be part of a stage play. 

  19.05.2017

• Tournament of Two Capitals - Participants Share

  Last weekend in Moscow, the Tournamentof Two Capitals robotic contest came to the end. School students competed in four categories and the final assignment, where their robots had to climb mountains, race against each other, build bridges and ride seesaws. For each participant, the contest was something different: for some, robotics has already become a usual pastime, others got their first chance to prove that they really can construct and program autonomous machines. In an interview with our newsportal, the students shared about why they chose to do robotics, what is most difficult about it and what did the tournament mean to them.

  16.05.2017

• Battle of the Capitals: St. Petersburg Takes Home the Prize

  The first-ever Tournament for Two Capitals in robotics, held in Moscow, culminated in a grand relay race that combined elements of all the tasks from previous stages of the competition. In a tense, but joyful race the select team from St. Petersburg gained victory. Over the course of the tournament, the children learned not only how to solve engineering and software issues on the spot, but also how to work in a team, support each other and root for others, even their rivals. The aspiring robot builders were supported by their trainers, who were just as anxious about the outcome as the players themselves and their families and friends.

  15.05.2017

• Tournament for Two Capitals: High School Children Presented their Robots

  ITMO University hosted semifinals of the Tournament for Two Capitals competition (Turnir Dvukh Stolits). Over 70 teams from schools of Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast presented their robots. The jury chose the 20 best teams that will compete with young engineers from Moscow on May 13-14. 

  02.05.2017

• ITMO's MT.Lab Develops A New Kit for Studying Robotics

  Specialists from ITMO University's MT.Lab created a new educational kit for studying robotics - the MT.Evolute. The system is compatible with most popular robotics instruments and allows school and university students to construct their devices as fast as possible without getting lost in the many different standards. The project's author, ITMO's Master's student Alexey Meshkov, presented it at the Skolkovo Robotics exhibition. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, he and Dmitry Kupriyanov, MT.Lab's founder and PhD student at ITMO’s Department of Mechatronics , shared about their invention.

  02.05.2017

• Robot Revolution: How Robotic Systems Change Our Lives

  ​In 2015, media all over the world spoke of world's robot market boom. The sales started to top record levels, and reached tens of billions of dollars. Robots started to enter all fields of our lives, not just the industry. For instance, lots of robots are now used in different services: robotic vacuum cleaners, robots that deliver purchases, medical robots and even robots for disarming explosives. Dmitry Teterukov, Professor at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) shared about how robots became the new trend and how the robotics market continues to develop.

  18.04.2017