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• ITMO and ASCON Develop Mockup to Automate Large-Scale Production

  ITMO’s Engineering and Technology Center and Russian engineering software company ASCON have developed a mockup of a smart factory that has the potential to increase production efficiency and produce quality through planning and management. The solution was presented at the international conference INNOPROM 2023 in Yekaterinburg.

  03.08.2023

• ITMO Team Wins Best Project in Competition by 1C Company

  Ilya Livshitz, a professor at the Faculty of Secure Information Technologies, and PhD student Egor Sokolov have won the competition for the best project in the field of management and bookkeeping automation held by the software developer 1C. Their method for digital workflow of legal documents was named the best in Central and Eastern Europe.

  09.11.2022

• ITMO Launches New Corporate Master’s Track in Battery Production

  ITMO University and Istochnik, a Russian-based battery manufacturer, partnered up to open a new corporate track that will let students delve deep into the processes of battery production, tackle associated research and engineering problems together with practicing specialists, and acquire hands-on experience. The new track will be part of the Master’s program Digital Technologies in Manufacturing.

  11.08.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Ilya Livshits: An Engineer Is Someone Who Lives Honestly

  Ilya Livshits has been working in the fields of automation, audit, and development of state and private information systems for about 25 years. By chance, he also entered the world of science and education – thanks to meeting a professor on a train and arguing with the dissertation council. Now Ilya Livshits is a professor at ITMO and last year, he won the ITMO.EduStars contest. He shared some insights into various approaches to teaching and the nature of engineering with ITMO.NEWS.

  25.03.2022

• ITMO Students Develop New Manipulator Arm That Can Be Applied Everywhere: From Catering to Chemistry Labs

  ITMO University students developed a compact manipulator arm using polymers, which helped significantly bring down its production costs. At the same time, the new device is just as secure and precise as its existing analogs. The project is headed by Islam Bzhikhatlov, a PhD student at ITMO University, who told ITMO.NEWS about the robot’s potential applications, the tasks it can solve, and the way it stands out from similar products. 

  12.08.2021

• Robotic Trolleys, Smart Drones and Full Automation: How Things Work at Unilever Factory in St. Petersburg

  Education is all about broadening your horizons and developing an understanding of how your future work can help to make the world a better a place. Bearing that in mind, ITMO University’s Career Center organized a tour for ITMO students to one of the factories of Unilever, the leader in the food and personal care products market. ITMO.NEWS writes about the highlights of the tour, the Center’s plans for the future and the best internships at Unilever.

  27.03.2019

• ITMO University Shines at TechCrunch International Robotics Conference

  In December 2017, ITMO University started to collaborate with the British company TRA Robotics. Since then, they have been working on several joint projects in the field of robotics. In the middle of May, Berkeley, United States, hosted one of the world's most prestigious conferences in the field of robotics, TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics 2018. ITMO University and TRA Robotics presented their joint projects, a prototype of versatile industrial grasping device “UHVAT”, and an algorithm of sensorless force/torque regulation for robotic arms.

  05.06.2018

• Electronic Checklists for ITMO Graduating Students

  On May 14, ITMO University launches a new system of electronic checklists for graduating students. This means that students won’t have to waste any more time in lines with a paper form. The information about unfulfilled requirements can now be found in the “My Page -> Education” section at isu.ifmo.ru. The project was initiated by Special Projects Center and the Department of Information Technologies. Ekaterina Kalkina, the project manager, told ITMO.NEWS about all the important steps to be taken to graduate as planned.

  11.05.2018

• Results of European Parliament Discussion on Robot Economy

  The European Parliament has recently hosted a workshop on the topic “Economy of Robots”. Although a complete integration of robots and AI into humanity’s everyday life is expected to come in a few generations, the process has already begun. Experts outlined the issues that may arise in the meantime. Among the workshop’s participants were Aleksandr Kapitonov, a research assistant at ITMO’s Department of Computer Science and Control Systems, and Sergei Lonshakov, an ITMO alumnus and founder of Airalab.

  18.04.2018

• Dean of Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics Anton Pyrkin Named “Professor of the Year”

  Last Monday the awards ceremony for the “Professor of the Year” award in natural science was held. The award is given out by the Russian Professor Council and St. Petersburg State University. Anton Pyrkin, Dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics was this year’s winner of the title. As an ITMO graduate, he had worked in the industry before returning to his alma mater to work in academia. He spoke to ITMO.NEWS about robotics in the early 2000’s, how science can be more exciting than business and what modern education should teach about technology.

  30.03.2018