RangeVision helps Drone Reengineering at Archipelago 2025

From August 7 to August 17, 2025, the annual design and educational intensive "Archipelago 2025", organized as part of the International Forum on the Development of Unmanned Systems. RangeVision took an active part in the event as part of a Large Technology Workshop.

The organizers of the forum are the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Government of Moscow, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, the NTI Platform, University 2035, and the NTI Project Support Fund.

The scale of the event

The forum brought together about 3,000 participants from more than 30 countries, including representatives of technology companies, startups, universities and government agencies. The program involved 185 experts from 46 regions of Russia, who worked on the rating of the drone economy and projects for the introduction of unmanned systems.

The event was attended by Dmitry Peskov, Special Representative of the President of Russia for Digital Development, and Dmitry Kaisin, Rector of University 2035, who emphasized the importance of technological sovereignty and the development of domestic developments.

In addition, the Turn-key Industry, Startup Fair, and Drone Garage exhibitions were held at Archipelago 2025. A total of 166 exhibits were presented, which demonstrated the technological development of the UAS industry in the country. The Scout drone, capable of processing data and making decisions during flight, and the heavy M700 drone, capable of lifting cargo up to seventy kilograms and delivering it over a distance of ten kilometers, aroused great interest among the participants.

Engineering competitions

Archipelago has become the largest tournament for engineers, designers and programmers of onboard AI. More than a thousand qualified specialists from 76 regions of Russia took part in the final stage of the intensive course. 52 competitions were held, including in such areas as:

• swarming interaction of drones;
• additive technologies and 3D reengineering;
• search and development of promising application scenarios;
• search for solutions to technical problems;
• national UAS records;
• school of engineering volunteering.

The engineering zone, where over 50 competitions in various fields were held, became the central site of the intensive course and the main competition ground. The drones flew more than 2.5 thousand missions and flew for about 300 hours, which is 2.5 times more than last year. In various competitions, teams performed complex tasks using drones, developed security modules to counter cyber attacks, and even created three-dimensional swarm images.

Large technology workshop: focus on practice

More than 50 companies became partners of the competition, providing their own equipment, which formed the basis of a Large technological workshop, a unique production site where participants could solve any engineering problems. The impressive workshop included a 3D scanning site, a computer lab for design and reverse engineering, an impressive fleet of 3D printers for printing with various materials, an electrical engineering and plumbing coworking space.

RangeVision also acted as a technology partner of the site, organizing a 3D scanning platform.

The workshop directly supported three competitive tracks — "Additive UAS Factory", "UAS Technologies: 3D Reengineering" and "Hello, Pioneer". During the three days of the competition, work was in full swing here. The participants actively used the Workshop's tools and equipment to design, repair, and modernize the drones. The RangeVision PRIME metrological 3D scanner helped them at the 3D scanning stage. It proved to be the optimal solution for digitizing small parts with high accuracy requirements.

Based on the scans, the teams immediately refined the design of the parts and printed them in metal or plastic in order to immediately integrate them into the design of the drone.

The teams not only completed the tasks of the competition, but also presented their projects, telling about the challenges they faced in their work, how they solved the problems that arose, how the solutions they found differed, and what experience the team gained during the competition.

10 teams participated in the track "UAS Technologies: 3D Reengineering", which we watched with the greatest interest. The three leaders included:

1st place: Nizhny Novgorod NPC — ANO "Scientific and Production Center of unmanned aircraft systems of the Nizhny Novgorod region"

2nd place: Aerosace — Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N.Tupolev (KAI)

3rd place: Buran — a Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation" (GUAP)

Results and prospects

Archipelago 2025 confirmed not just the growing demand, but the undeniable need to use additive technologies in such a high—tech industry as the development of unmanned devices - perhaps no other technology provides such an impressive rate of hypothesis testing and prototyping of new solutions.

As a technology partner, it was extremely interesting for us to observe the work of the teams. We were happy to present small gifts to the winners of the track, the Nizhny Novgorod NPC team. At the same time, we cannot fail to note that all the teams showed impressive creativity, flexibility and perseverance in solving a wide variety of engineering and design tasks.

Even outside of the competition, the 3D scanning site attracted the attention of the Archipelago participants. Representatives of the NPC, specialists and students were keenly interested in scanning technologies, scanned themselves, brought their objects for reverse engineering. The ten days of intensive training were filled to the brim with practical benefits and communication with users.

Photos provided by "University 2035"