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• 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

• ITMO’s Robotic Center: New Projects by WRO’s Award Winners

  Creating a robot that can prevent forest fires, define and erase "bad" graffiti or hand paint a Christmas ball? Easy as pie! — say specialists from the Robotic Center of ITMO's School of Computer Technologies and Controls, where champions of many Russian and foreign competitions design their robots. Read more of the Center's projects and ideas in our article.

  22.03.2017

• Ten Online Courses You Won’t Want to Miss

  ​According to the collaborative report from Coursera, Open Education and Lectorium, by the end of 2016 the number of Russians who take online courses on both Russian and foreign platforms has reached one million — which is twice as much as it was last year. In 2017, experts expect further progress of MOOCs, in both the number of users and the programs' variety; such subjects as Computer science, project management and smart design technologies will remain most popular. Here's a list of 10 online courses by world's leading companies and universities that you surely won't want to miss!

  20.03.2017

• Gutenberg’s Lounge: Human-like Intelligence or a Spotless Mind?

  Now robots can write poems, play Go and win as well as make jokes. It seems that they will soon feel like we do and surpass all humans. Alexey Potapov, professor at ITMO and St. Petersburg State University, author of books on AI and speaker of the science popular project Gutenberg's Lounge, shared about how to empower AI, why it is wrong to create AI in the image and likeness of the human brain and how to control "smart" machines.

  06.03.2017

• Science by High-School Students: Young Engineers Presented their Projects

  Over the last few days, the 13th Baltic Science and Engineering Competition has been taking place at ITMO. This year you can look at 289 projects by 349 participants from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Here are some projects made by some of the young talents.

  02.02.2017