Enchanted Tools, the French start-up specialising in robotics and AI, is proud to announce the first delivery of its robot to ISIR. This event represents an important step in the history of the Paris-based start-up, demonstrating the confidence placed in it by ISIR, an entity under the auspices of Sorbonne University, CNRS and Inserm.
A major turning point for Enchanted Tools
Created in 2021, the start-up presented its first prototype after just 12 months of R&D. Today, this first delivery demonstrates the ability of its teams to innovate rapidly and deliver robots that are mature enough to be used outside its Paris workshops.
The delivery of this robot to ISIR marks a significant step forward for Enchanted Tools: “We are proud to announce the delivery of our first robot to ISIR, a major step forward for Enchanted Tools. This moment symbolises the maturity of our prototype as well as the strength of our partnership with ISIR, a pillar of innovation in robotics. Seeing the Mirokai in action at this prestigious institute is tangible proof of our dedication to advancing the frontiers of robotics and helping to shape the future,” says Jérôme Monceaux, CEO of Enchanted Tools.
A generation of robots to re-enchant the world
Enchanted Tools has created Mirokaï, robots designed to meet the challenges of modern robotics by combining the useful and the wonderful. Mirokaï use a range of artificial intelligences to interact with users, orient themselves autonomously and carry out logistical tasks in contact with untrained users. Inspired by an original imaginary world, Mirokaï have a unique design and innovative technical features: an interactive face that reacts in real time to inputs, two arms and two hands that can manipulate objects and an innovative movement system based on a rolling globe.
Integration of ISIR: a key partnership in the advancement of robotics technology
The Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) is a Joint Research Unit (UMR 7222) under the supervision of Sorbonne University, CNRS and Inserm (ERL-U1150).
ISIR helps to anticipate the transformations in our society brought about by robots and artificial intelligence systems, by working on the autonomy of machines and their interaction with humans.
Working in multi-disciplinary teams, ISIR researchers are creating various devices such as drones, micro-grippers, bionic prostheses, social robots, surgical arms and other intelligent and interactive systems, whether physical, virtual or in mixed reality. These innovations are designed to meet major challenges in areas such as healthcare, the industry of the future, transport and personal services.
Pour l’ISIR, disposer d’un tel robot, dans sa version recherche, permettra de contribuer au développement des robots de manipulation mobiles interactifs, en particulier dans trois champs de ses recherches pluridisciplinaires :
- Interactive programming incorporating learning by demonstration: how a non-robotic user can programme a robot by giving it demonstrations and interacting with it to explain the tasks to be carried out.
- Low-level control of the system, in particular optimal, synchronised control of the 22 actuators using the whole body control principle.
- Human-robot interaction, i.e. the integration into the robot of interactive behaviours that adapt to the user for fluid, or natural, interaction.
Guillaume Morel, head of the Miroka project at ISIR, comments: “Thanks to the support of the Ile de France Region, CNRS Sciences Informatiques and INSERM, we now have a unique platform that is the envy of many foreign laboratories. The partnership with Enchanted Tools has only just begun. We’re just a few hundred metres from each other and we’re going to be working together over the next few years on a wide range of subjects. It’s a win-win partnership, which will give ISIR a major boost to its activities in interactive mobile manipulation and which will enable Enchanted Tools, thanks to the projects we’re starting up together and our agreements, to rapidly transfer the advances we’ve made in our research into even more effective future products.”
A promising outlook for the end of the year
Enchanted Tools intends to continue delivering its robots to other customers by the end of 2024. These robots will play a key role not only in research but also in the application of innovative technological solutions across a range of sectors including events, hospitality, in-store applications and healthcare, where the start-up is already heavily invested.
About Enchanted Tools
Enchanted Tools was founded in 2021 by Jérôme Monceaux (multi-entrepreneur, co-founder of Aldebaran and co-creator of the Nao and Pepper robots) and Samuel Benveniste (doctor of science and former director of the Centre national d’expertise en stimulation cognitive).
Enchanted Tools has raised the largest amount of seed funding in the history of French robotics, has been awarded the Deeptech label by the BPI and is one of 125 start-ups in the French Tech 2030 programme. With a target of producing 100,000 robots in 10 years, the company is aiming to make a global impact.
This article is republished from Enchanted Tools. Read the original press release.
Scientific contact at ISIR: Guillaume Morel, University Professor
Published on 17/07/2024.
