Founder & CEO

Dr. Jean-Christophe Baillie graduated in Computer Science and Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. He received the PhD in Artificial Intelligence from University of Paris 6 and Sony Computer Science Lab and then founded the Cognitive Robotics Lab in ENSTA/ParisTech. During 4 years he worked on developmental robotics research with an extension of the Talking Heads experiment initiated by Luc Steels (Sony CSL). During the course of his researches, he designed Urbi as a tool to control complex robotics systems like the Aibo. In 2006, he founded Gostai, to further develop the Urbi technology and he is now directing the company, while keeping an active part in the R&D activities. He received in 2007 the "Pierre Faurre" award from the Polytechnique Foundation.

Chief Operating Officer

Benoit Pothier has managed complex projects mixing personal computers, embedded systems and networks. Passionate with robotics, he has a strong IT and software background. Notably, at Alcatel-Lucent R&D, he was responsible of the core of the OmniPCX Enterprise product, which provides a suite of unified communication applications. He is a graduate of the French INSA Lyon. Benoît Pothier works as our chief operating officer and also on strategy and business development.

Chief Software Architect

Dr. Akim Demaille graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. He holds a Ph. D. in computer science from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. He is an active contributor to Free Software; he maintained GNU a2ps, GNU Autoconf, participated to the development of GNU Automake, and is still involved as a maintainer of GNU Bison, the Yacc-like parser generator. He was a researcher at the EPITA Research and Development Laboratory (LRDE), which he directed for four years. He worked on compiler construction and program transformation. Akim is now leading the development of Urbi 2.0 within the "Kernel Team".