Search results for «Youth Robotics» 25 results

  • Team of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab Deemed Best Novices at RoboCup 2021 Finals

    …RoboCup is the world’s most prestigious competition in robotics that has taken place annually since 1996. The team from ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab and St. Petersburg Lyceum 239 (Dmitry Yakovlev, Dmitry Kovalko, Elina Knyazeva, Nikita Luskin, and Valery Rybin) became the best among those who participated in RoboCup’s finals for their first time (Best Novice Team). Trad…

    05.07.2021

  • ITMO Robotics Team Wins RoboCup Russia Open

    …The national stage of the global RoboCup – RoboCup Open Russia competition in robotics that took place in Tomsk is now over. The team from  ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab and Lyceum No. 239 presented in the RCJ OnStage Preliminary Secondary category. It’s one of 10 categories of the competition, as part of which the robots must perform: dance, sing, play musical instrumen…

    18.05.2021

  • ITMO Robotics Team Converts Hoverboard Into Life-Sized Robot

    … the RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017 – plays the guitar, and ELSA – the second-place winner at RoboCup 2019 – is a flute virtuoso. As explained by Igor Lositskiy, the head of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab, the team wants to create a robotic ensemble that could perform together with people.  “We’ve always created musical robots, for instance, ones playing the guitar or…

    21.04.2021

  • Principle of Collaboration Exhibition Launches at ITMO

    …t that wouldn’t suffer from the uncanny valley effect – a feeling of unease we feel towards artificial faces that look nearly human, but not quite. The students visited ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab and asked its staff and students six questions about their fears, robotics, their favorite robots, and the uncanny valley. World wide web Students Anastasiia Kuznetsova…

    17.12.2020

  • ITMO Team Takes 4th Place at World Robot Olympiad 2020

    …try was severely damaged by forest fires this year and thus the topic of using robotics in eliminating such consequences was especially relevant. The students of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Laboratory, Stepan Muravev, Aleksandr Syrkovskii, and Iaroslav Lugovskoi, under the supervision of Igor Lositsky assembled a robot that can collect water from a source and delive…

    17.11.2020

  • ITMO’s Robotics Team Wins Silver at World Robot Olympiad 2019

    …thusiasts could present their inventions in the fields of smart education, smart workplaces, and other areas of intelligent urban management.  The team of ITMO University’s Youth Robotics Laboratory took second place in the Senior High age group of the Open category, having scored 164.78 points. Placing first was a team from India (168.50 points), while third plac…

    10.11.2019

  • FEDOR: Meet Russia’s First Robot Astronaut (Who Also Does Splits)

    …n’t be universal. In this case, anthropomorphicity is a universal tool. A robot like that could work in any environment it finds itself in,” says Igor Lositsky, head of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab. The robot consists of 15,000 machine parts and runs on a Linux-based real-time operating system developed in St. Petersburg. The robot is charged using a regular so…

    12.08.2019

  • ITMO University Takes Second Place at RoboCup 2019

    …Prior to going to Australia, the members of the Youth Robotics Laboratory of ITMO University’s School of Computer Technologies and Control (Vasily Dunaev, Dmitry Kharlapenko, Maxim Mikhailov, Daniil Nechaev and Levon Pogosov) took the second prize at RoboCup Open Russia, the national round of RoboCup 2019 competition held in Tomsk. Though first place went to another …

    08.07.2019

  • ITMO University’s Youth Robotics Team Wins Gold in National Stage of World Robot Olympiad 2019

    …urban management.  Comprised of first-year students Levon Pogosov and Daniil Nechaev and a Presidential Lyceum №239 graduate Maksim Mikhaylov, the team of ITMO University’s Youth Robotics Laboratory competed in the Open category in the Senior High age group. They decided to develop a solution combining two of the competition’s categories: smart education and smart…

    26.06.2019

  • ITMO Scientists Awarded for Achievements in Science and Education by Acting Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov

    … and Gleb Zagarskiy from School №116, led by Igor Lositskiy. Other memorable projects include Seldon’s robotic lady friend Elsa, which was created by a team from ITMO’s Youth Robotics Laboratory (Vasily Dunaev, Dmitry Kharlapenko, Maxim Mikhailov from Presidential Lyceum № 239 and first-year ITMO University students Daniil Nechaev and Levon Pogosov) under the …

    17.06.2019