On August 25, 2020 a delegation from the company «METRA» visited the Laboratory of intelligent robotic systems (LIRS) of the Higher Institute of Information technologies and intelligent systems (ITIS) of KFU. The purpose of the visit was discussing issues of further collaboration.

A Head of the LIRS professor Evgeni Magid and a senior lecturer Roman Lavrenov gave the guests a tour around the laboratory: they told about the robots, projects implemented at the LIRS, and the "Intelligent robotics" master's program. In addition, professor Magid and Roman demonstrated the equipment used by employees and students of the LIRS. The guests spoke well of the technical equipment of high quality laboratory equipment.

The «METRA» research and production enterprise was one of the first enterprises in Russia to launch the production and sale industrial weighing equipment. The company has more than 25 years of experience – during this period the current needs of customers were taken into account, as well as production technologies were improved. Weighing equipment of «METRA» is in demand at enterprises of leading industries throughout Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States countries. The company is a system integrator of KUKA, FANUC and 3-D TECHNOLOGY companies.

METRAROBOTICS is a division of the METRA group companies that emerged as a result of concluding a number of partnership agreements with companies that produce solutions in the field of robotics and industrial automation, attracting specialists with their own experience in the fields of design and integration of automated control systems, specialists in the fields of design and implementation of robotic systems.