“Robots will be everywhere in the near future: assisting the elderly, in home care, as personal and object security…” announced the Japan Robot Association, confirmed by the Korean Prime Minister’s engagement, and as reinforced by the studies led by the International Federation of Robotics. Robots will circulate in a connected environment of communicating objects. They will be a distinct element of the mobile intelligence we will live in.

Robotics is one of today’s key issues. Exporting countries will generate hundreds of thousands of jobs. France has excellent expertise in this domain, one that is recognized on a worldwide level. Nevertheless, today, due to a lack of capitalization around emergent actors, other countries, more than France, are the ones to benefit from our national knowhow.

It is now crucial to mobilize and pool French expertise and experience. With demand increasing and technological evolution’s exponential nature, we have fallen behind of some of our competitors like Japan, Korea, and the United States. They have acted strategically on the future value of Robotics and known to mobilize important financial resources toward this sector.

Robotics are inseparable from digital technology, electronics, mecatronics, telecommunications, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence… it is now essential to integrate all of this knowhow. The creation of a domain community dedicated to robotics can facilitate this goal. With its diversity of actors, in particular SMEs, as well as a strong software component in Human-Computer Interaction and telecommunications, makes Cap Digital a prime host for these activities.

The main goal of the community is to be the axle of autonomous robotics, for service or entertainment, thus promoting the emergence of the robotics and communicating object sector by banking on business and innovation.

Our vocation is to help France become a robotics leader. The community wants to be a hub of innovative trajectories and be an ecosystem for robotic businesses, and in other domains, pooling value-added technologies for robotics at large.

The community’s 56 members represent SMEs, research labs, and higher education establishments.

Community Contact:

François Hanat – francois.hanat@capdigital.com – 00 33 (0)1 40 41 11 89

The community’s website: http://www.caprobotique.com