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Former student at the Mechanical Engineering
Department of Ecole Normale Supérieure in
Cachan
(Agrégation de Génie Mécanique in 1987), holding a PhD in Automatic Control
from the Montpellier University, Dr. François Pierrot
now serves as a Director of Research for the French National Centre for
Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Laboratory for Computer
Sciences, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM).
Since January 2005, he is Deputy Director of the
LIRMM.
For more than 15 years, he has been working to create new robots
considering simultaneously mechanical design and control strategies, on
theoretical aspects as well as in close cooperation with industrial
partners. He has authored or co-authored numerous scientific papers and
international patents. His innovative research has been distinguished in France (ADER Prize, 2003), in Europe
(European Commission IST Prize, 2002) and in Japan (Robotic Society of Japan Prize for Innovation, 1995) for results in various fields such
as medical robotics, entertainment robotics or industrial robotics. He is
currently involved in fundamental research projects at national level
(SHERPA, aiming at the design of a walking machine, and OBJECTIF 100G,
targeting ultra-high speed manipulation) or at European level (NEXT, new
generation of machinery, is the 4th EU project for which he is
the scientific responsible for CNRS), as well as in applied research
projects in cooperation with the Fatronik
Foundation, Spain. Recent successes include the creation of an
innovative 4-dof parallel robot, transferred to the world leader of
high-speed robotics: Adept Robotics,
USA.
He has been elected (2004-2008) as President of the National Committee
which evaluates French research laboratories in Communication &
Information Technologies (Section 07 of the Comité National de la Recherche
Scientifique).
He participated in the creation of the first Japanese-French joint
laboratory for robotics, AIST-CNRS JRL, in 2003 and is now a member of
its Scientific Committee.
On the
industrial side, after being instrumental in the creation of the company Wany Robotics which received the National Prize for
Innovative Companies in 2000, he has served President of the Board
until 2008. Several research creations have been transferred to industries:
Quattro
(industrial robot) with Adept Robotics, USA and Fatronik Foundation, Spain
Hexa (industrial robot) with
Toyoda Machine Works, Japan
Dermarob (medical robot) with
Sinters Co., France
Pekee (education-entertainment
robot) with Wany Robotics,
France
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