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IASP 2016: Skolkovo, Waterproof Drones, and Underwater Vehicles with Albert Efimov, Anastasia Uryasheva and Borris Rozman
In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Albert Efimov, Chief Roboticist at Skolkovo, about creating an innovation cluster for robotics companies; Anastasia Uryasheva, CEO of Tsuru, about a waterproof unmanned aerial vehicle; and Borris Rozman, General Director of GNOM, about underwater vehicles.
This is the first of three interviews from the conference.
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- IASP 2016 conference website
- Skolkovo’s robotics page
- Tsuru’s homepage
- GNOM homepage
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tags: c-Research-Innovation, Event, Flying, podcast, Prototype, Russia, Skolkovo, startup
Audrow Nash
is a Software Engineer at Open Robotics and the host of the Sense Think Act Podcast
Audrow Nash
is a Software Engineer at Open Robotics and the host of the Sense Think Act Podcast
Christina Brester
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