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• Robotics Track at I Am a Professional: Why You Need It and How to Prepare

  The online registration for the sixth annual contest I Am a Professional is in full swing and this year, just like any other, this event is every student’s chance to enter the country’s best universities without entrance exams. ITMO University is responsible for three of the contest’s tracks, including Robotics, curated by Dmitrii Dobriborsci, an associate professor at the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies. In this article, he tells us why you should take part in the contest and how you can train to ace it.

  27.10.2022

• ITMO’s Team Wins Hackathon at International RoboFinist Festival

  Team BE2RLab from ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics became the winner at the hackathon held by StarLine company. The competition took place at the international robotics festival RoboFinist. ITMO students managed to program a robotic platform and successfully helped a blind robot get out of a maze.

  25.10.2022

• Researcher Oleg Borisov on Being a PI and Creating Robot Dogs in Russia

  Oleg Borisov attended school in Astrakhan Oblast, hundreds of kilometers away from St. Petersburg, but his passion for computer technologies and control led him to ITMO. Today, Oleg is working on control algorithms for robotic systems, as well as supervising several research teams. In this article, the researcher speaks about his work experience and shares his view on whether Russian developers can compete with Boston Dynamics.

  18.10.2022

• Biomimetics: The Science of Robo-Animals

  Boston Dynamics’ Spot, bionic kangaroos and even ants – biomimetics allows us to replicate almost any living thing. But why do roboticists look to animals for inspiration, what do they do at ITMO, and how do you make a robot act “natural”? ITMO.NEWS investigates.

  03.10.2022

• Student Spotlight: Hrishikesh Gujrathi, India

  “As an international student, I've adapted to my new life in St. Petersburg pretty well. I'm very happy with everything here and really enjoy being around everyone,” says Hrishikesh, an international Master’s student at ITMO. In today’s interview, we talked about ITMO’s programs and how Hrishikesh became interested in them. He also shares his view on how Russia compares to India and other countries when it comes to studying AI, robotics, and computer science.

  07.07.2022

• Student Spotlight: Mohammad-Hossein Vaziri-Moghim, Iran

  Between accompanying his father on business trips and studying at ITMO, Mohammad-Hossein has had plenty of time to get to know St. Petersburg like a pro. What made him interested in robotics and artificial intelligence? Why ITMO? He answers these questions and more in today’s interview.

  09.06.2022

• Student Spotlight: Devtanu Bose, India

  All the way from Kolkata, India Devtanu is a Master’s student in robotics and artificial intelligence at ITMO. He is also an intern in Nancy, France where he is working on a project in thermal physics. In this interview, he shares his story of getting selected for this internship and successfully making it to France amidst travel restrictions. Besides studies, he is also a Real Madrid faithful and wishes to witness the Champions League final at the Stade de France in Paris.

  26.05.2022

• ITMO Youth Robotics Team Wins RoboCup Russia Open 2022

  The team of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab became first in the RCJ OnStage category among school students aged 14-19 at the national round of RoboCup 2022. At the contest, the team Simple Dimple presented their musical robots who performed Caprice No. 24 by Niccolò Paganini and Kalinka Malinka by Ivan Larionov. The show featured a robot (playing the balalaika), one of the team members (playing the dombra), and robot matryoshkas as their backup dancers.

  17.05.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Alexander Kapitonov on How to Motivate Students and Make Engineering Interesting

  Alexander Kapitonov started teaching robotics as a PhD student thanks to his experience working at the Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239. Now, he not only teaches and leads projects, but also heads ITMO’s Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies. Last year, Alexander was one of the winners of the ITMO.EduStars contest. We asked him about his principles in teaching and the tasks of a faculty’s dean. 

  06.04.2022

• ITMO PhD Student Evgeny Khomutov: My Main Goal Is to Be the Best Version of Myself

  Evgeny Khomutov graduated from the corporate Master’s program operated by ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics and the Sberbank Robotics Laboratory. Having successfully completed a project in collaboration with the company, he decided to continue his studies as a PhD student. These days, Evgeny is developing a system that will help design gripping devices automatically making it accessible even to novices. In the future, this system can serve as a basis for more personalized (and cheaper) hand prosthetics. We asked him why it’s more interesting to work at a university and not in the industry and how robotics can help people with special needs. 

  25.03.2022