Drone combat and platformer projects showcased: students from TUSUR University presented their projects at U-NOVUS
Tomsk University Students Showcase Cutting-Edge Projects at U-NOVUS Forum
Tomsk, May 22 – RIA Tomsk: Students from Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) presented ten innovative projects during a pitch-session at the U-NOVUS forum. Notable among these startups is a complex for drone combat, an oriented-towards-story game-platformer, and an application designed to combat stress among corporate employees.
The All-Russian forum for young entrepreneurs and innovators, U-NOVUS, is taking place in Tomsk from May 21 to 23. The main themes will focus on technological leadership and the realization of regional national projects. The event is expected to gather over a thousand participants from 30 regions of Russia, with more than 150 speakers delivering presentations.
One of the forum's events is a public pitch-session for the top 10 startup projects from TUSUR's "Startup-Polygon" accelerator. This series of accelerators has been running at the university since 2022, and, to date, over 300 teams have passed through the project. In 2025, the sixth season was conducted jointly with Moscow State Technical University (MGTU) named after Bauman.
According to the Director of TUSUR's Student Business Incubator, Gleb Sadkov, the aim of these events at U-NOVUS is to demonstrate the quality and essence of their projects. For participants, such events provide an opportunity to receive advice and guidance from experienced investors and to attract funding for project realization. Representatives from MTS, Malina VC venture fund, the public organization "Strong Russia," and other companies were present at the pitch-session.
The electronic ski pass
One of the presented projects is an application for ski resorts in Russia and CIS countries, which aims to unify various services within a single ecosystem. An agreement has already been reached for testing the application at the Gornaya Salanga ski resort in the Kemerovo Region.
"We will unite ski resorts in our application and offer access to infrastructure. Features such as the electronic ski pass – an alternative to the traditional plastic card system – will be available. The system will function like Whoosh's quick start. The application includes rentals for equipment, guides, tours," explained project presenter Valery Efimov.
He added that a minimum viable product for the Gornaya Salanga ski resort is planned for 2025.
The performance costume
Another project presented was a performance costume for capture-of-movement HIT. The costume, equipped with more than 15 wireless inertial sensors that record human movements, allows for quick transfer of real-world movements into a digital environment, creating animation.
"Your movements will be transferred to the character, allowing you to play various roles in your computer games, films, and animations," explained project founder, TUSUR student Maxim Hackievich.
He noted that at present, 11 companies are already waiting for the presentation of the final product.
For students and gamers
Anastyasia Alabieva, an employee of TUSUR's Robotics and CNC Laboratory and Deputy Secretary of the Acceptance Committee of the Institute of Radioelectronics Technology, presented a project for simulating student life.
"I am a game developer. Our goal is to provide an opportunity for prospective students to experience engineering and technical specialties. There's a common problem that many students are not sure about engineering specialties because the entrants' grades are low, and budgeted places are abundant. Students are often unaware of the nature of the specialties because the names are complex – profiled terminology, which students do not learn in school," explained Alabieva to the news agency.
She pointed out that the initial implementation of the project is planned within TUSUR, with future expansion to other universities of a technical focus.
One of the games presented during the demonstration day, "Reunion," is a platformer characterized by an original narrative that directly affects the gameplay. According to the project leader Maxim Korkhov, during gameplay, the player must help the main characters reunite, as they are on opposite sides of the game world.
At the time of writing, the team has completed the concept and has begun developing the tech demo product.
Stress management application
Timofei Simonyov, the leader of the "Odejlo" project, explained that the application aims to address the psychological problems faced by employees and the companies that employ them.
"We have an application that helps employees deal with their psychological problems individually and provides companies with a tool for monitoring the mental health of their employees," Simonyov explained.
He emphasized that the project team constantly consults with practicing psychologists in the development process. The pilot version of the application has already been implemented on the platform of the Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk project.
- The students' game-platformer project presented at the U-NOVUS forum showcases their creativity within the realm of technology.
- Among the innovative projects at U-NOVUS, gadgets such as the stress management application offer solutions for people's everyday challenges, demonstrating the fusion of technology and everyday life.
