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• Project by ITMO Professor Becomes Official Partner of Elon Musk’s OpenAI

  Prof. Aleks Farseev and his colleagues will get access to the GPT-3 neural network that can produce content that blurs the lines between machine and human crafted content. The team will use the new capabilities for improving advertising algorithms in social media.

  10.02.2021

• ITMO Researchers Teach Robots to Run Chemical Experiments

  ITMO University experts are creating technological assistants for chemical laboratories that will be able to take over all routine work with no human involvement needed. Right now, the first prototypes are already performing the simplest manipulations. In the future, robotic chemists will be able to run their own research for accumulating large amounts of data and performing primary analysis.   

  23.12.2020

• What’s Behind the Renewed Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Program

  The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence program (previously called Robotics) is aimed at training specialists working at the intersection of two fields. Read this article to learn why robotics is so important for AI and vice versa, and what sociologists and programmers are to do in this program.

  22.12.2020

• How ITMO Researchers Are Using Speech Analysis to Diagnose Dementia and Parkinson's

  ITMO University researchers, as part of an international team, have developed a speech analysis algorithm for the elderly that can help diagnose neurological diseases such as dementia and Parkinson's disease in the early stages.

  13.10.2020

• Environmental-Monitoring Water Drones to Be Tested on St. Petersburg Rivers

  In the future, the floating robots, which were developed by the staff of the company Airalab together with ITMO University engineers, might appear in the water bodies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as negotiations are already underway. Learn more in this article by ITMO.NEWS.

  28.07.2020

• ITMO Roboticists Developing a Financially Independent Robot Artist

  A team of PhD students from ITMO University’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics are developing a fully autonomous robot artist. The project aims to demonstrate the possibility of creating autonomous systems using the principles of robonomics. ITMO.NEWS got in touch with developers Ivan Berman, Alexei Ovcharov, and Vadim Manaenko to learn about their project, the ethics of robot-human interaction, and their collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.

  16.04.2020

• ITMO’s R&D Project Results and Their Applications

  Year after year, dozens, even hundreds of ITMO’s students and PhD researchers conduct their research. Their topics are set, teams are formed, projects are created and developed, their results are defended, – but what happens next? Are these results left on a dusty shelf somewhere, or do they find their application in the real world? ITMO.NEWS talked to three project leaders, PhD students and staff members at ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies, and found out what’s in store for their PhD theses. 

  16.03.2020

• Professor Fabio Bonsignorio on the Need of Reproducibility of Robotic Research and the Future of the Economy

  Circular economy, Industry 4.0, automation, autonomous cars - we’ve been hearing these terms a lot in the past several years. Still, the interrelations between the associated phenomena are not quite evident. Fabio Bonsignorio, a professor of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa (Italy) and one of the leading scientists in the field of biorobotics and future technologies has recently delivered a lecture at ITMO University and spoke with us about how blockchain and robots will change the economy.

  25.03.2019