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• Volunteering in Summer: from Mountains of North Ossetia to the Tropics of Bolivia

  … used by organizations from all over the world to publish requests for volunteer workers. These are usually unpaid jobs, unless you’re taking part in a state program like, for instance, teaching English in Chilean schools. If anything, it’s you who’ll often have to pay to participate in the program. Why is that? The reason that volunteering programs are very popular …

  02.06.2017

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

  …ed, more than 50% of robots that do useful work are engaged in car manufacturing. Those are large and powerful mechanisms that are safe for people only because they are placed inside restricted areas. This is the situation we all aspire to change: we want robots to become part of our environment. Yet, how can we do that? We don't use robots outside factories not b…

  01.06.2017

• Student Construction Bureau: Programming Robots For Industry 4.0

  …act, RED focuses on not just robot construction, but more on developing software products that can help introduce robots to our lives. In other words, here students create "brains" for robots. "At our university, we focus on three fields of robotics. The first is mechatronics, which has to do with a machine's structural design, load calculation, choosing the eng…

  01.06.2017

• ScienceFest, Day 2: Phygital Technologies And The New Approach To Museums

  …oresaw that there will soon be a computer in every house, and created a graphical user interface, so that humans would interact with computers by using the desktop and similar instruments. Then, about 10 years ago, they've developed smartphones that didn’t use a keyboard and used the Multi-touch technology, the DigitalUserInterface; in essence, people started to inte…

  31.05.2017

• Clean Slate: How to Fight Illegal Ads Through Blogging and Make Graffiti a Form of Fine Art

• ITMO's Technopark Establishes Cooperation with a Major Food Production Company

  …ng in the software development and production automation field for more than two years already. Since then, the startup has established cooperation with several companies; for instance, they've introduced their odgAssist.Pharmacy automation instrument and their new automation system at one of Russia’s largest pharmaceutical plants POLYS…

  31.05.2017

• ITMO and Newtonew Announce Winners of First “Physics: the Game of Light” Online Contest

  …t. Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast and Moscow (players from these regions constituted 40% of the playerbase) as well as other major cities such as Ekaterinburg, Volgograd, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Perm and Nizhny Novgorod and other, smaller, localities. The highschoolers didn’t need to be onsite to test their knowledge of physics. The main feature of “Game of Light” is that…

  31.05.2017

• Clothing Made From Bacteria, Electronic Tattoos, And Latest Virus Threats: What We’ve Learned at the Campus Festival

  …Clothing is already much more than something we put on every day - in a sense, it has long become an important instrument of communication. People use clothing to express their preferences, outlook, personality - or, conversely, to hide within the crowd. Yet what will become of clothing in some 40 years? Will we be still referring to it as just "clothing"? Well, even…

  30.05.2017

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

  …d and head of ITMO University’s Design and Multimedia Center. Museums’ research staff these days tends to support the creation of multimedia products that represent their institutions. The Solovetsky Museum-Preserve already has a room that features a virtual tour and uses modern technologies that provide visitors with an innovative way to learn about the Solovet…

  30.05.2017

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

  … ITMO University's area at Science Fest Several universities prepared their own areas for fans of science, among them the Polytechnical University, Moscow Technological Institute and, of course, ITMO University. The first non-classical university presented its guests with projects by FabLab and OLYMP laboratory. Visitors could acquaint themselves with 3D-print…

  29.05.2017