Enchanted Tools reaches a major milestone by delivering its robot to its first customer: the The Institute Of Intelligent Systems And Robotics
Paris, July 15, 2024 - Enchanted Tools, the French start-up specializing in robotics and AI, is proud to announce the first delivery of its robot, Miroka, to the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR). This event represents an important milestone in the history of the Paris-based start-up, testifying to the confidence of ISIR, an entity under the supervision of Sorbonne University, CNRS and Inserm.
A major turning point for Enchanted Tools
Created in 2021, the startup 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 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 milestone for Enchanted Tools. This moment symbolizes not only the maturity of our prototype, but also 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 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 multiple artificial intelligences to interact with users, orient themselves autonomously and perform 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 solicitations, two arms and two hands that can manipulate objects, and an innovative movement system based on a rolling globe.
ISIR integration: 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 contributes to anticipating 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 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 aim to meet major challenges in fields such as healthcare, the industry of the future, transport and personal services.
For ISIR, having such a robot, in its research version, will enable it to contribute to the development of interactive mobile handling robots, in particular in three fields of its multidisciplinary research:
Interactive programming integrating learning by demonstration: how a non-robotic user can program a robot by giving it demonstrations and dialoguing with it to explain the tasks to be performed.
Low-level control of the system, in particular optimal, synchronized control of the 22 actuators based on the whole-body control principle.
Human-robot interaction, i.e. the integration into the robot of interactive behaviors 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 meters from each other and will be working together over the next few years on a wide range of subjects. It's a win-win partnership, giving ISIR a major boost to its activities in interactive mobile manipulation, and enabling Enchanted Tools, thanks to the projects we're starting up together and our agreements, to rapidly transfer our research advances for even more effective future products.”
Promising prospects 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 diverse sectors such as events, hospitality, in-store applications and healthcare, where the startup 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 (PhD in science and former director of the national center of expertise in cognitive stimulation). 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 startups in the French Tech 2030 program. With the goal of producing 100,000 robots in 10 years, the company is aiming for global impact.
Contact - Enchanted Tools Richard Malterre – richard@enchanted.tools
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