What we're building
that isn't yet
in the catalogue.
The Laboratory is where Eiffel AI thinks out loud. Our embodied R&D. Projects we're passionate about, not yet commercial (or not yet), exploring territory where AI hasn't set foot.
Reachy Care is a home companion designed for isolated elderly people, built on a European robotic platform (Reachy Mini, manufactured by Pollen Robotics). It speaks, recognizes faces, detects falls, reads stories with intention, plays chess, and sends an alert to a loved one or a caregiver when a weak signal calls for it.
Designed by someone with twelve years of theatre and stage-management practice: the robot has stage presence, not just words. The project rests on one conviction: the loneliness of older people is not a technical fate, it is a lack of attentive presence. The robot fills that void without trying to replace a human.
Capabilities
- Contextual LLM conversation (French / English)
- Local facial recognition (no cloud)
- Fall detection with Telegram alert to family or care home
- Expressive reading (emails, recipes, stories)
- Voice-controlled chess
- Eligible for Article 51 of the 2019 French Health Law (in progress)
Same body as Reachy Care, different pedagogy. Aristotle teaches using Socratic questioning. It doesn't give answers, it asks the right questions. Covers nine disciplines (French, math, history, science, languages, philosophy, music, visual arts, PE). Adapts its language to each child's age and progression.
Pedagogy rests on 30 years of theatre practice and 20 years of Noh theatre: real learning emerges from the tension between ignorance and revelation.
Plants communicate. Not with words, but with electrical and chemical signals we've learned to ignore. VegeOhm is a six-channel sensor that listens: tissue resistance, impedance, biopotentials, MEMS ultrasound, turgor. Ten years of empirical research behind it.
One question only: how does a plant speak? And once we know, how do we listen without killing it?
For stage managers, conductors, percussionists. A tool that reads a score with AI, detects tessitura errors before they ruin rehearsal, orchestrates instrument nomenclature, manages the stage in real time. Designed by someone with ten years of stage management behind them.
The Reachy Care, Aristotle, VegeOhm and OrkMap projects are carried out by Eiffel AI, SASU (RCS Tarbes 103 132 049), of which Alexandre Ferran is shareholder and R&D director.