KPI graduate Taras Ostapchuk: "The future of Ukrainian technology is being born here and now"
Modern warfare is not only a confrontation between manpower and technology, but also a battle between robotic technologies. Today, unmanned systems perform a wide range of tasks: from reconnaissance and combat operations to rescuing the wounded and delivering provisions and ammunition. And we are not only talking about UAVs, but also ground-based robotic systems (GRS), which were created with the help of the hands, minds, and knowledge of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute students.
Fedir Tetianych. At the intersection of the present and the future
Our newspaper (see “Kyiv Polytechnic” No. 1-2, 2024) has already reported on the mosaic panel “Science,” which adorns the facade of Building 18 and is included in the List of Identified Cultural Heritage Objects of Kyiv. However, its creator, monumentalist artist Fedir Tetyanych (1942–2007), is known mainly to specialists. But the first performer of independent Ukraine, whose ideas were ahead of their time and remain relevant to this day, does not deserve to be forgotten.
Faculty session: celebration of the start of the academic year
This year's traditional session of the teaching staff of Igor Sikorsky KPI, which took place on August 29, began with some delay. Of course, this was not due to its participants, who gathered on time in the hall of the Academic Council of the university, but due to the announcement of an air raid alert throughout Ukraine. The all-clear signal sounded about half an hour later, and only then did everything go according to plan.