Among the interesting developments of this year is a filling for a cat toilet with urine pH indicator, a way to identify gold in the ore, a robot cherry and weather forecast system.
Since the beginning of 2025, URFU has sent more than 200 applications to Rospatent, including 137 programs for 87 inventions and computers and databases. Compared to last year, the number of applications in the database has doubled and the inventions increased by 17%.
According to the results of 2024, Urfu ranked fourth among Russian universities in the fourth and fourth creative activities. The university ranks fifth in the publications and patents of engineering universities in Russia.
Source: Ferra

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