In the current context, between the conflicts and the energy crisis following the pandemic, French manufacturers are facing the challenge of fast-track relocation. The demand for increased production, at lower costs and better quality is strong. But without skilled personnel and tools, the solution lies in technology, with robotization of production as the backbone. However, the robot remains largely inaccessible because it is expensive and complicated to use and requires robotics experts. Fuzzy Logic, with its software that allows non-experts to easily pilot a robot, offers manufacturers a way out.
It is on this project of democratization to the greatest number of industrial robotics that the BPI granted its Deeptech development aid to Fuzzy Logic. The complex file required a year of work.
The BPI grants this financing to projects that are vectors of disruptive innovation and that are developed in close collaboration with the world of research. Fuzzy Logic's software offers a significant economic potential since it is part of a perspective of reindustrialization of territories. This last point is one of the major axes supported by the BPI for its industry of the future plan.
Antoine Hoarau, CTO of Fuzzy Logic, explains: "To achieve our ambition of enabling any industrialist, whatever their level of expertise, to use industrial robotics, our R&D teams have many challenges to meet. They are working on the generation and planning of robot movements from basic instructions in complex and even changing environments, while remaining easy to use for a novice and complying with current safety standards. Overall, our goal is that an operator can simply show the robot what to do and then the robot will execute the requests safely on its own. This project requires a fine modeling of the environment, an ergonomic and intelligent machine with a minimum cognitive load. Our research pushes the state of the art of robotics and opens up new questions for the scientific community. "
Ryan Lober, CEO of Fuzzy Logic, adds, "This funding is for two years of R&D and will allow us to greatly accelerate the resolution or exploration of these topics. We are opening recruitment, mainly to talented researchers, engineers and developers who will be able to solve these complex problems."He concludes, "Our software provides manufacturers with the ability to reappropriate their technological tool, to automate it, using solutions that were previously impossible. And so to deristify their appropriation of industrial robots and to improve the return on their investments. We make factories independent by making their production evolve through technology. This is what we call "Automation Independence". "