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• ITMO Receives 500 Million to Create Industrial Robotics Center

  ITMO University has won a competitive selection to receive 500 million rubles towards the creation of the Industrial Robotics Development Center. Special focus will be placed on intelligent and adaptive robotization – technologies that help robots adapt to constantly changing production tasks.

  21.10.2026

• Robot Senses Developed at ITMO: Teaching Machines to See, Remember and Understand Their Surroundings

  ITMO’s Laboratory “Embodied AI and Robotics” has presented a series of solutions meant to enable machines to efficiently interact with the physical world around them: to see and recognize spaces, objects, movement, and changes in their environment. Together, these solutions bring robots closer to independent and purposeful interaction with their physical reality.

  15.10.2026

• ITMO Professor Sergey Kolyubin Awarded Yandex ML Prize

  Sergey Kolyubin, a professor at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, the head of the International Laboratory “Embodied AI and Robotics,” and the deputy head of the School of Computer Technologies and Control, has been named one of the winners of Yandex ML Prize 2026 in the category Program Leaders. The award annually honors lecturers and heads of educational programs who have significantly contributed to AI and ML education in Russia. In 2026, eight specialists from ITMO University, HSE University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Novosibirsk State University received the award.

  21.09.2026

• New Face in the Orchestra: ITMO Team Presents Violin-Playing Robot at RobotChallenge 2026

  The team of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab showcased their most complex robot so far, EMMA, which won over the audience at the international RobotChallenge 2026 in Beijing, China. She doesn’t only play the violin masterfully – but can also tune the instrument herself and play back the melodies she hears. The ITMO team competed with more than 46 teams in the Freestyle category.

  12.08.2026

• All-Purpose Robots for New Applications: ITMO’s Sergey Kolyubin Talks Teaching Machines to Think and Act

  Industrial robots are good at handling routine operations, but they are incapable of adapting to new conditions and take a long time to integrate into a process. This problem is solved at ITMO’s Laboratory of Embodied Intelligence in Robotics: here, researchers create systems that enable robots to see and act without an operator. The lab works with major clients and presents its research at international A* AI conferences. Students here work alongside more experienced colleagues and make up to 250,000 rubles a month.

  04.08.2026

• ITMO-Based School Student Team Wins Russian Robotics Olympiad

  The team of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab came first in the senior creative category of the Russian Robotics Olympiad in Orenburg. The team presented an autonomous AI-based waste collector robot that can function in natural surroundings. The device can help maintain natural reserves and parks without disturbing their ecosystems. 

  07.07.2026

• ITMO Student Ildar Gainullin Wins One Million Rubles at University Battle 2026

  Ildar Gainullin, a Bachelor’s student at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, has won the super final of University Battle 2026, a programming contest by Yandex. He finished first among 200 competitors and took home one million rubles.

  26.06.2026

• Offline Robots and Automated Kitchens: ITMO Researcher Vladislav Gromov on New Challenges for Robotics

  An industrial robot today is an intelligent yet often cumbersome machine that is usually tied to one specific location. Vladislav Gromov and his team, including ITMO PhD students, are training robots to “walk,” “sense” people, and function even without access to the internet. Their next step is to develop a robotic kitchen that will make cooking completely automated – no humans involved. In this interview, Vladislav Gromov shares insights into his project and speaks in detail about challenges scientists face and how other researchers can join his team. 

  15.06.2026

• Robots + AI: Scientists and Big Tech On Making Sci-Fi a Reality

  Intelligent robots that interact with the world around them and make decisions don’t seem so fantastical anymore. How many years separate us from humanoid devices and fully autonomous systems? What data should we use to train robotic systems? And where should one study to bring to life the tech described by Azimov and the Strugatsky brothers? All this was discussed at a session of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) – here are the highlights.

  09.06.2026

• PhD in Robotics: Alexey Vedyakov Talks Robot Control and Industrial Path for PhD Students

  ITMO’s control systems programs are among Russia’s best, recognized by years of being ranked in the top 150 in Automation & Control in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. At ITMO’s Adaptive and Nonlinear Control Systems Lab, control methods for technical and robotic systems are being developed by not only experienced researchers but also current students. For one, a research team helmed by Alexey Vedyakov, an associate professor and a senior researcher at ITMO, builds architectures for robot navigation, AI for physical systems, and control algorithms for robot manipulators to adapt robotic systems for customer needs. In this article, Alexey Vedyakov speaks in detail about his current projects, research tasks in robotics, and working with young scientists.

  29.05.2026