00:00Hi everyone nice to meet you. My name is Maxim. I'm one of co-founder of Botifool.ai
00:08At Botifool we are building a brand for humanoid robots and especially for the use case to be
00:14receptionist in a hostel, airports, offices, everyone where we have a customer interaction.
00:23About myself before that I studied at UC Berkeley in California at HSA in Paris
00:29in entrepreneurship and I'm in mechanical engineering. I think the best
00:38now is to study why we decided to target a customer interaction. So if we see the
00:49humanoid robot we need to scale, we need to use the robot that can scale in the
00:54production. So the first choice we did in Botifool is to build only the brain of the
01:02robots and not the hardware. Why? Because in China and other countries have a capacity to
01:11build at the scale the robot. For example, Agibot built 5000 robots last year, humanoid
01:17robot and unit 3 4200 robots. So in Europe I think we can scale this step but we can
01:26produce all of the brain of the robot. The second step is why we decided to use a
01:33humanoid robot. In general in robotics we chose the right robot for the right
01:39application. For example, we don't choice the humanoid robot to clean the floor or to work in a
01:47factory. But for the interaction with a human, it's pertinent to use a humanoid robot.
02:01The second point is the cost. When you want to use a salary, for example, to be a receptionist with
02:09a
02:10charge and for two employees it's around 60K per year. But if you want to rent a Botifool robot, it's
02:20only 40K per
02:22year. Okay? It's all for this reason we decided to build only the brain of the robot and on the
02:30humanoid robot. Now I think the best is to do a demonstration with
02:35Botifool.
02:45Okay.
02:48Hi Botifool, how are you?
02:50Very well, thank you.
02:53Though I'll admit, it's not every day this many people look my way.
02:57Hello everyone. Delighted to be on the discovery stage for VivaTech's 10th anniversary.
03:02Thanks for that. Can you say hello to the French people and international guests, for example Chinese?
03:09With pleasure.
03:11Bonjour et bienvenue à VivaTech.
03:15Bienvenue à VivaTech.
03:19Okay, good. Thank you for this demonstration. Now, what can you suggest to do with you?
03:26I suggest you test me as if I were a hotel receptionist.
03:29Oh, okay good. Okay, I will try.
03:34Hello and welcome. May I have your first and last name?
03:38Okay, good. I book a room for two nights.
03:42Got it. I found your reservation. You're staying two nights until June 19th. Is that right?
03:48Yes, right.
03:51You've already paid online. I'll now verify your identity. Please show me your ID card.
03:56Okay, now I will show my ID card to the robot.
04:03Thank you. Now please look at my cameras.
04:05Okay.
04:07Thank you Maxime. Your identity is verified.
04:09So, we match the ID card with my face and now my identity is verified.
04:14Number 305 on the third floor. I'm sending your access code by SMS.
04:19Okay. And now the robot sent me the access by SMS.
04:23So, if I can show my screen on this screen, you can show the SMS.
04:27It's here.
04:28With my name, my room, my floor and my code access to the room.
04:35Okay. Now I want to focus a little bit on the technical part.
04:39At Botifool, we are focused on three parts.
04:42The first part is the communication.
04:47So, the voice. The robot has the capacity to speak in a 20 different language.
04:53In a really noisy place, like this place.
04:56So, it's a really resilient robot for that.
05:00And we match the gesture with a different speaking.
05:04The second part we are working is connecting all tools of the customer to the robot.
05:08We can connect Elwin, Salesforce, every software to give the intelligence to the robot.
05:17And the last part we are working is the mobility of the robot.
05:22So, we are working to have the capacity to move between the point A and point B in a different
05:26area.
05:27And to move in the area with a lot of people.
05:30And to adapt this movement.
05:35So, for that we developed the object detection.
05:39And we are based on the SLAM and VLM.
05:46Okay. Sorry.
05:48To build this team, we are now a team of seven people.
05:52So, we are two co-founders, Jean-David Benichoux and myself.
05:55Jean-David Benichoux is an entrepreneur with 35 years old experiences.
05:59An investor in 150 startups.
06:03And myself, Maxime, I'm a co-founder and engineer.
06:05And we are supported by five people.
06:07So, one PhD in AI and three engineers and one head of marketing.
06:14We started the company just eight months ago.
06:16So, for now we signed it three design partners.
06:19So, paid design partners.
06:21And you are looking for two more design partners.
06:23The goal is to go into production in 18 months with these robots.
06:30If you want to keep in touch or to follow the adventure or to join the team.
06:36Please scan this QR code and keep in touch.
06:39Thank you so much.
07:01Congratulations again.
07:02Can I round the applause?
07:03Wow.
07:05You done?
07:06That's okay.
07:08Thank you so much.
07:09If you go back with, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
07:11Oh, whoa, whoa.
07:12Now he will go back.
07:13It's okay.
07:16You can work with him if you want.
07:17Oh, no, everybody manage stuff.
07:21Can I round the applause again, please,
07:23ladies and gentlemen.
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