Physical AI · Robotics · Autonomous Systems
Research, insights and field experience at the frontier of Physical AI — from humanoid robotics to autonomous systems and embodied intelligence.
I am a Physical AI consultant and project manager specialising in autonomous systems, robotics and embodied intelligence. After a career spanning large-scale industrial projects across Energy (Oil & Gas), Finance (CIB/Trading) and IT, I made a deliberate transition toward Physical AI — the frontier where artificial intelligence meets the physical world. I lead the LOGIE-AI consortium (France 2030), consult on GenAI programs at Vallourec, and am completing MIT's Physical AI program and OpenUSD certification.
Peer-reviewed papers, white papers and technical reports on Physical AI and autonomous systems
Robotics
July 2026
Why human turn transitions average 208 milliseconds, why one laboratory study found users preferred about 700 milliseconds from a robot, and how endpointing — not model speed — dominates the delay people actually experience in conversational robotics.
Read paperRobotics
July 2026
When the combined uncertainty of robot, tooling, fixturing and parts exceeds assembly clearance, precision has to be recovered through the interaction loop: the geometry of jamming, admittance control, compliant end-effectors, and simulation-trained insertion policies that now transfer zero-shot at industrial tolerances.
Read paperRobotics
July 2026
How simulation moved from test bench to training data factory, why the gap between simulated and real behaviour is now the central engineering risk in robotics, and what managers need to know about sim-to-real transfer, learned dynamics and scaling laws for dexterity.
Read paperRobotics
July 2026
A field analysis of Amazon's contact-rich stow robotics deployment: how kinesthetic feedback corrects vision-only estimates, why compressibility is the variable no camera can measure, and what it means for industrial project managers buying embodied AI.
Read paperDigital Twins
2025
How physics-grounded digital twins combined with machine learning shift maintenance from scheduled to genuinely predictive across heavy industry.
Read paperRobotics
2025
Field lessons on governance, safety validation and cross-disciplinary teams when intelligent systems leave the screen and enter the workplace.
Read paperSpace
July 2026
Telemetry analytics, digital twins and bounded autonomy in the risk architecture of a satellite fleet: how ML anomaly detection, operational twins and tiered machine authority are moving spacecraft risk management from insurance transfer toward engineering resilience.
Read paperAI/ML
July 2026
Why a shared scene description layer is becoming the connective tissue of robotics simulation, synthetic data and sim-to-real transfer — and why standardised description does not mean standardised physics: what composition reliably buys you, where solver semantics diverge, and how to adopt OpenUSD without believing the marketing.
Read paperField notes, analysis and perspectives on the Physical AI ecosystem
Two labs, two philosophies of embodiment — and a shared conviction that the hard problems are no longer purely computational.
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The discipline that delivered refineries and trading platforms is exactly what robotics programmes are missing today.
Read moreInside a national R&D consortium: consortium governance, hardware timelines and the reality of shipping embodied AI.
Read more2025–present
Project Manager — AI companion robot platform
2024–present
GenAI PMO — three concurrent AI programs (ECHO+GENIUS, PLP TenderBoost, Safety AI)
April 2025
Data Science & Machine Learning Certificate
Summer 2026
Physical AI Program
Paris Robotics Week — Panel
Embodied intelligence in European industry
June 2026
France 2030 · LOGIE-AI Public Session
Companion robotics for ageing societies
March 2026
Vallourec Digital Days
Running three GenAI programmes at once
October 2025
Available for keynotes, panels and expert commentary on Physical AI, robotics and autonomous systems. Bilingual FR/EN.
Based in Paris · Available internationally
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