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on the undueness or not the operation in questionRallies and markets the Turkey is FloresA poll whose result has national implicationsWith this oxygen for example could buy Toyota5 million households who do not have ADSLThe reign of the shareholders has just begunThe course of 2010 promises to be made hollow and bumpsMargin of manoeuvreYet these are not so disturbing3 million members closely related to the SPThe Célestins will play in the fall skiesThe robot benefactor or repressor of the economy For Bruno Maisonnier, founder of the Aldebaran Robotics company which is at the initiative of the creation of Cape Robotics, it all depends on what side stands: "robots will create millions of jobs in the countries that produce and destroy millions those who import." Therefore one should not miss this revolution. "Cape Robotics is a kind of mini pole of competitiveness in the Council of Ile-de-France pole Cap Digital (). The interest is to consolidate the maximum of skills in a field, the robots for service, to work together to make the France "the country leader in robotics."
A disproportionate ambition Perhaps. Yet, who knows that French researchers are at the forefront in this area Japan, United States, Korea and European Union are the four dominant powers. "The French scientific community ranks in third position behind the Japanese and the Americans", provides same Didier Juvin, Director of programs of the laboratory of integrated systems and technologies ECA (the LIST), including a hundred researchers out of a total of 600 work in areas important for robotics. The fields of skills that must be together to develop a robot are indeed multiple: Mechatronics, electronics, signal processing, artificial intelligence, synthesis and
voice recognition... The Atomic Energy Commissioner works for years to multiple devices for the handling of radioactive substances. And indeed, 45 actors gathered in Cape Robotics, half of which are companies and other engineering schools, institutes of research laboratories. Systems of Versailles (LISV) Engineering Laboratory for example developed prototypes for applications in the field of locomotion and aid to the disabled. As the Limsi (mechanical computer lab) and the engineering sciences, one of the pioneers in the Paris region, he is interested in communication between robots.
True companions
Why, therefore, this market specific service robots Because it is likely the most carrier. Experts see them arrive in three waves. First fun machines known. Will then be those intended for the elderly. It is the subject of the first project launched in Cape Robotics: Romeo, a robot designed to help elderly, disabled or frail (read below). "Finally, there will be those that will be useful for the greatest number", said Bruno Maisonnier. Another project is thus conducted in Cape Robotics: GV - LEx, which means "Gesture and voice for expressive reading", and to ensure that the crawlers "expressiveness". The idea is to transform these machines in true companions, for example able to read a story in a compelling way. A now insurmountable task for speech synthesis software.
The most optimistic argue that personal robots, 5 million units in 2008, should soon be produced in mass such as automobiles or computers, with 80 million products in 2015. Non-existent in 2000, domestic robots weighed 4.4 billion (EUR 3.16 billion) in 2005, compared with $ 5.6 billion for their industrial counterparts. But next year, the first will generate $ 7.8 billion for the latter 12.3 billion. And by 2025, the Japan Robotics Association estimates that the global market of domestic robots will be nearly $ 35 billion (25.2 billion), more than those for industry, health and the public sector together. An attractive future but, in the current state of things, out of reach. The massive failure of Europe, and especially the France, it is the very weak link between research and industry. With an unfortunate consequence: If the results obtained in the French laboratories are very favourably received, it is in... Japanese manufacturers. There, the market already exists. The Japanese have already adopted domestic robots. And with a population in free fall and an aging population, they see these machines as a solution for their future (read below). It is also able to shorten the transfer between laboratories and industrial periods", insists Didier Juvin. It is the interest to work in Cap Digital, the pole which includes very many SMEs (350), some 20 companies and multiple laboratories in the field of the digital economy. Even the students of the Strate Collège Designers are associated with Cape Robotics with their R-Potato project. "This market will become public if defined uses for robots". "Designers therefore have an essential role to play," provides Dominique Sciamma, Director of the design Department of systems and interactive products of Strate Collège Designers.
Address the consumer market
Great idea on paper, Cape robotic faces however small obstacles. For example, the fact that the Cap Digital competitiveness cluster is only Council of Ile-de-France. However, it was not a problem for the start-up Wany Robotics, adhering to Cape Robotics, based in Montpellier. All players are far from sharing the same vision. Thus, some as Aldebaran available today their robots in the laboratories due to the price. Others, such as Gostai or Robopolis, founded by Bruno Bonnell, the ex-patron of Infogrames, are already supporters to attack the public with much less expensive machines. Bruno Bonnell who has also just found a Union of the actors in the world of Robotics called "Syrobo", in which a commission "ethics and Robotics" will focus on a Charter to guide the future role of the robots. Most of these projects will be presented at the "Future in seine" event organised by Cap Digital to June 7.
