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Chill Summer: Fizzy Drinks to Try in Russia
… resting on its laurels: in recent years, countless smaller brands have popped up and made use of the growing number of upmarket grocery chains, like the frequent ITMO partner VkusVill. Read also: How to Shop Like a Local in St. Petersburg What all these new players on the market have in common is a willingness to boldly experiment with flavors. Take the…
18.08.2026
All-Purpose Robots for New Applications: ITMO’s Sergey Kolyubin Talks Teaching Machines to Think and Act
…erent types of sensors to actions, reproducing fairly complex manipulation skills. Another project that we are working on with other ITMO teams is a roboticized kitchen for VkusVill: it’s a system that replaces cooks on the “last mile” of working with prepacked and ready meals before delivering them to clients. Our responsibility is a computer vision module – the …
04.08.2026
Full-Cycle Development: The Future of ITMO’s Faculty of Biotechnologies
…ilities. But I’d like to see us building research and education centers together or establishing joint laboratories on campus. One example of such shared infrastructure is the VkusVill x ITMO Center for Food Innovations, where students, with guidance of supervisors from the industry, explore the full production cycle – from an idea to a commercial test batch. We have…
23.06.2026
Offline Robots and Automated Kitchens: ITMO Researcher Vladislav Gromov on New Challenges for Robotics
…nt our scientific methods practically with the involvement of our partners – in particular, we’ve been working with the company Arrival Robotics. Right now, we’re working with VkusVill (a major Russian grocery store chain – Ed.) on a robotic kitchen, where foods will be made without human involvement. This will free the cooks from routine tasks, reduce the error rate…
15.06.2026
PhD in Foodtech: ITMO Researcher Denis Baranenko Talks Promising Projects and Opportunities for PhD Students
… and quality of products and increasing their shelf life. In our work, we collaborate with many Russian and international companies and universities. Among our partners are VkusVill, Partner-M, Nordena, Harbin Institute of Technology, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Zhengzhou Xinda Institute of Advanced Technology, Kaliningrad State Technical University…
07.05.2026
ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup: Best of 2025
…more: ITMO Highpark Techno Valley Receives 5 Billion-Ruble Investment *** Science rocks, but it rocks even more when it tastes nice! ITMO and the major food retail chain VkusVill launched an R&D center where students will join scientists in developing all-new foods. Here, they’ll be able to flesh out each product’s concept, develop its production model, and del…
13.01.2026
Products by ITMO Students Named Best at VkusVill Startup Incubator
…Collab is a startup incubator by VkusVill that helps students complete the full innovative foods development cycle: from analyzing the audience and polishing the idea to creating a recipe and packaging – and launching the product. The incubator’s second season saw 112 applications from 30 universities in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. After the qualifying demo d…
25.12.2025
ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #94
…r the given task. Read more: AI Prompt Generator Developed at ITMO *** Science rocks, but it rocks even more when it tastes nice! ITMO and the major food retail chain VkusVill have now launched an R&D center where students will join scientists in developing all-new foods. Here, they’ll be able to flesh out each product’s concept, develop its production model…
15.12.2025
ITMO and VkusVill Launch Joint R&D Center for Foods of the Future
…The center will serve as VkusVill’s permanent R&D platform on the campus of one of Russia’s leading universities. The task will be not just to generate ideas for “smart” foods, but also to supply the store’s aisles with ready-to-launch products with scientific added value. Young researchers will design fully fleshed-out products, study consumer demands, develop recip…
02.12.2025
New Career, New Job, Higher Salary: ITMO Master’s Student Shares Her Experience
…skills they would like to have. For the project, I talked with prospective students and studied their user experiences. Then, in the second semester, I started working with VkusVill – my team analyzed the fermentation market and provided this data to the company. In my last semester, my team and I worked on an AI-based CRM system for Baltika. This is a cust…
19.06.2025