The one-day Skolkovo Robotics Conference program included welcome addresses from government and industry leaders, lectures on various robotics topics from researchers at MIT and Imperial College London, a round table discussion on challenges in robotics, and a sci-fi movie screening. The conference featured talks on sensor-guided robotics, personal assistive robotics, and humanoid robotics research. Networking and demonstrations of robotics technologies were also part of the program taking place at the Skolkovo Hypercube venue.

1. Skolkovo Robotics
Conference program
Date: 10 February 2013
Venue: Skolkovo, Hypercube
Registrations at http://robotics.sk.ru
Time Action
 Transfers from Park Pobedy MS to Hypercube,
Reception
 Robotics Action Time and Polytech Museum Robotics: Vintage Robotics,
10:00-11:00
 Welcome coffee.
Welcome addresses:
 Mark Shmulevich, Deputy Minister of Communications and Massmedia Russian
Federation,
Keynote  Victor Vekselberg, President of «Skolkovo» Foundation,
speeches  Oleg Deripaska Founder of Oleg Deripaska Foundation «Volnoe Delo»,
11:00-11:30  Ed Seidel, Senior Vice President of Research and Innovation Skolkovo Institute of Science
and Technnology
 Igor Agamirzyan, CEO Russian Venture Company, Chairman
 Dmitry Grishin, Venture Fund Chairman Grishin Robotics,
 “Solving Society's Important Problems of Today and Tomorrow Through Robotics” by
Lectures Steven Dubowsky, MIT Space and Field Robotics Lab;
11:40-12:40  “Tools for Sensor Guided Robotics: OpenCV for Robotics” Gary Bradsky, Founder Industrial
Perception.
12:40-13:00 Coffee break
 “Personal Assistive Robotics: Case studies, opportunities and challenges” by Yiannis
Lectures Dimiris, Imperial College of London;
13:00-14:00  “The iCub project: research in humanoid robotics” by Giorgio Metta, assistant professor
University of Genova.
Lunch-time  Lunch,
14:00-14:40  Robotics Action Time, GF, Hypercube.
Discussions Round table “How to do Skolkovo Robotics Challenge” with Russian and international experts
14:40-16:30
 Coffee break
Networking  Networking in Hypercube,
16:30-17:30  Robotics Action Time.
 Polytech Museum Robotics: Vintage Robotics
Showtime
Sci-Fi movie “Robot and Frank”, first show in Russia
17:30-19:00
Farewell
Return transfer to Park Pobedy MS
19:00-20:30