During a working visit to Perm, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the exhibition of products of the local IT cluster at the enterprise "Er-Telecom Holding". The head of state was shown a robot-prototype manufactured in Perm, which can fill out documents and accept payments.

Communicating with the representatives of the information and communication cluster of the Perm Krai, Vladimir Putin expressed his confidence that the "Internet of things" in the industry is able to radically change the country's economy and make it independent ". In this case, we will have a different economy, the only way we can be independent, the head of state stressed.. According to him, the creation of a fundamentally new industry will provide commanding heights, writes TASS. Who will own these clusters of information, digital in certain industries, he will be the master of these industries in the world, said Putin.

At the request of the audience, the president commented on the complaint about excessive centralization of the innovation sector - regional companies that would like to receive support from the Skolkovo fund need to move there. According to Putin, the idea of ??concentrating everything in one place was the right one, but why force you to drag everything to Skolkovo?.

The issue of insufficient synchronization of state programs related to the development of the digital economy was also touched upon. The President drew the attention of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Communications to this problem, stressing that as a result of this synchronization, IT companies should not lose existing benefits.

Head of State considers it possible to organize a center for robots in Perm, Tass reports..

To date, the market of robotics and artificial intelligence is the fastest growing, it will grow due to service robotics and artificial intelligence. In the opinion of Alexei Yuzhakov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Promobot, Russian producers have a strong enough position to take the leading positions in the world market in the future. Yuzhakov noted that now there is no single coordinating center in the country, the federal competence center in the field of robotics, and also proposed to organize such a center in Perm.