Skolkovo’s Robocentre will be out in force at the annual Innorobo exhibition of innovative robotics that will take place in Paris on May 24-26, 2016.
Innorobo is an exhibition of the latest achievements in robotics and of the technology of tomorrow from around the world. The event offers both robotics companies and research labs the chance to expand their business on an international level, forge new partnerships and enter into discussions about robotics with leading experts from across the globe.
Nine companies from the Skolkovo Foundation’s Robocentre will present their products at the exhibition and exchange experiences with their colleagues.
Map showing the location of company stands. https://innorobo.com/en/floormap/
Promobot
Promobot makes helpful robot assistants for places visited by a high volume of people. They help people find what they are looking for, answer clients’ questions, present promotional materials, increase sales and collect useful information on the people they come into contact with.
At the beginning of 2016, the company signed an agreement for the delivery of more than 100 robots to China. In January, Promobot’s co-founder Oleg Kivokurtsev was included on Forbes’ list of 30 influential people under 30.
Promobot’s clients include Russian banking giant Sberbank, mobile operator Beeline and the Moscow Technological Institute.
VisionLabs
VisionLabs is one of the top three commercial systems of face recognition, according to independent tests by the University of Massachusetts, and one of the world’s top 24 startups according to the U.S. accelerator programme Intel Technology to Market Accelerator @UC Berkeley. The company has major corporate and state clients around the world, including U.S. consumer credit reporting agency Equifax, Leto Bank, ABBYY and Promobot. VisionLabs is one of the six finalists in Innorobo.
TRIK
CyberTech Labs makes TRIK robotic constructor kits for children that can be used in education.
“Our product is based on three kits,” says Roman Luchin, co-founder and CEO of CyberTech Labs. “The first is a powerful control pad that we developed ourselves that makes it possible to realise complex algorithms. Thanks to this controller, the robots can learn to see, hear and connect to the internet, as well as to anything else that can be connected to. The second kit contains software and TRIK Studio educational media developed by CyberTech Labs. The third comprises teaching materials, master classes and video tutorials that teachers can study themselves and use in class.”
CyberTech Labs has clients in the U.K., China, Germany, Singapore and Poland, and plans to expand further in 2016, including on Asian markets.
Wicron
Wicron makes the Webot telepresence robot, which allows users to observe the bot’s surroundings from their location via the internet, and to interact with people in those surroundings accordingly. The remote presence robot is used in schools to include children with special needs in the education process.
Headed by a Skoltech postgrad student, the company recently won the Global Happiness Technology Challenge in China and signed a contract for the sale of several robots there.
Lexy
Lexy makes desktop robots that can understand human speech, with the aim of facilitating voice command-activated household appliances and retrieving information from the internet when prompted by a human voice.
The intelligent household assistant is being developed by a team of students from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) led by postgraduate student Dmitry Suvorov. The team is currently working on a prototype of Lexy.
Lexy won the Russian stage of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2015 in the Innovations category, and was named one of the top 100 startups by Hello Tomorrow. It also won a prize in Startup of the Year as a device with the potential to help people with visual and hearing impairments.
SiboTech
SyboTech makes software to enable mobile robot navigation indoors. A prototype of the product has already been tested, and beta-version of the software developed. The company is currently refining its product before its commercial launch.
ROBOT
ROBOT is an easy-to-control robot that can carry out simple physical tasks such as fetching and carrying, holding and opening things. It is designed to be a member of the family in the same way as a pet. It is endowed with qualities such as love, curiosity and fear that determine its behaviour. The product is planned to be sold on international markets.
Kleiber Bionics
Kleiber Bionics makes a range of affordable bionic prosthetic hands for amputees that match any imported competitor in terms of functionality and quality.
Neyroseti Ashmanova
Neyroseti Ashmanova produces Puzzle, a system that recognises objects in images and video and can understand what is happening in them. One example of its use is in video surveillance systems, enabling the computer to understand that a car accident or robbery has taken place and to sound an alarm.