Researchers of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) ran master classes for students and schoolchildren on programming ground robots intended to perform various tasks at the RUSSIA EXPO.

25th Anniversary International Conference "Speech and Computer" SPECOM-2023 was held from November 29 to December 2, 2023. The conference was held in a hybrid format:face-to-face in Dharwad, Karnataka, India, as well as online. Three members of the Laboratory of Speech and Multimodal Interfaces at PC RAS took part in the arrangements for the conference and delivered presentations namely: Doctor of Technical Sciences, Chief Researcher Karpov, A.A.; Candidate of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher Ivanko; D.V. and Candidate of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher Kipyatkova, I.S.

Successful test flights of the drone were conducted in the Shimsky district on the territory of the agricultural cooperative "Oratai". Due to its application, potato tops were dried, which led to the drying of the aboveground part of the plants, thereby accelerating the maturation of tubers. This procedure accelerates the maturation of tubers, contributes to the thickening of the peel, brings the harvest closer and prolongs the shelf life, as well as prevents the spread of infections and the appearance of diseases such as late blight.

SPC RAS researchers from its three laboratories actively participated in the round tables at the International Military and Technical Forum "Army-2023" that dealt with certain applications of Artificial intelligence technologies and robotic complexes.

St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with the Institute of Management Systems of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan (ISU MNOAR, Baku, Azerbaijan) and Wenzhou University (WZU, Wenzhou, China), is holding the 8th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR 2023), October 25-29, 2023, Baku, Azerbaijan: http://icr.cyber.az.

Conference is jointly organized by Indian research institutes (IT Dharwad, IIIT Dharwad, NIT Goa, KLE Tech, KIIT Gurugram) in cooperation with the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS), www.iitdh.ac.in/specom-2023.

On March 21, 2023 was a Joint meeting of the Public Council at the Committee for Informatization and Communications and the Scientific Council for Informatization of St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) hosted a workshop on technologies for managing the organo-bacterial community in crop production that completed the spring-summer series of the SPC RAS topical interdisciplinary workshops.

The fourth topical interdisciplinary workshop on technologies focused on the Earth remote sensing, analysis and visualization of geospatial data was held at the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS).

St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) served as the Conference organizer and host.