A conference on using robotized equipment to explore the Arctic and the oceans in general will start in Russia on October 28, Oleg Martyanov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC), reported.

"The conference will be part of a larger military-industrial conference and a section on maritime robotized equipment," Rossiya Segodnya says, quoting Martyanov.

He added that a section on drones would open at Skolkovo on September 19.