Rodolphe Hasselvander
About
Rodolphe Hasselvander is from Paris, Île-de-France, France. Rodolphe is currently Administrator at Cap Digital, located in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Rodolphe also works as Founder | Associate Director at BLUE FROG ROBOTICS, a job Rodolphe has held since Mar 2020. Another title Rodolphe currently holds is Founder - CEO at BLUE FROG ROBOTICS Inc.. In Rodolphe's previous role as a Executive Director | Co-Founder at Centre de Robotique Integree d'Ile de France (CRIIF), Rodolphe worked in Région de Paris, France until Oct 2017. Prior to joining Centre de Robotique Integree d'Ile de France (CRIIF), Rodolphe was a Administrator at Syrobo - Personal Robotics Trade Association and held the position of Administrator at Région de Lyon, France. Prior to that, Rodolphe was a Vice-President at DEFI Mecatronic, based in Ivry-sur-Seine from Jan 2011 to Jan 2014. Rodolphe started working as R&D Project Manager at criif in Jun 2004. From Jan 2000 to Dec 2001, Rodolphe was Robotics Engineer at PSA Peugeot Citroën.
Rodolphe Hasselvander's current jobs
Blue Frog Robotics is leading the global revolution of Embodied AI, where artificial intelligence takes physical, emotional, and social form. Creator of Buddy, the world’s first affordable emotional robot, the company brings generative AI to life in Education, Health, Hospitality and Research. With thousands of units already deployed, Blue Frog Robotics is unlocking a massive new market at the intersection of robotics, empathy, and human interaction. This isn’t science fiction. It’s AI you can meet.
Launch of Buddy the emotional robot in North America.
Biggest Robotic startups accelerator in France. Founded with Alexandre Ichaï.
After 15 years of experience in robotics, AI, business development and management, I founded BLUE FROG ROBOTICS to realize the dream of millions of people : LIVE WITH ROBOTS!! I created Buddy the first emotional companion robot because the key for consumer adoption is to create emotional link between humans and robots. My goal is also to demonstrate that robots could be benefic to the humanity. Our Robots won't replace humans, they will assist, secure and entertain them in their daily life. My work consist of: - understand the needs and the market - having a long term vision of the technologies - source the best technologies, softwares, components - imagine and design a useful robot, adoptable, affordable, industrializable and marketable - define the product roadmaps - built and manage a team of the best talents (tech, marketing, communication, admin...) - Identify the best partners - Business development - fundraising - communicate - Evengelize - Represent the company and present the vision and the product (Media, Events...) - Attract and manage the best profils - Lobbying
We want to create within a territory close to Paris a Silver Valley which ‐ like the Silicon Valley ‐ stimulates an eco‐system around the Silver Economy, providing attractive real‐estate & facilities as well as simplified access to research and financing in order to boost innovation & fruitful exchanges between members.
Rodolphe Hasselvander's past jobs
Business management, business development, innovation, design of advanced service robotic / AI solutions, team management, recruitment, project management... CRIIF develops customized robotics solutions for military, industrial and services clients, such as humanoid robots, autonomouos robotics platforms, robotics arms, grippers or any other mechatronic systems. CRIIF is also an integrator of complete robotics systems on site or simply an integrator of his software solutions such as autonomous navigation software (SLAM, vision), perception ( detection, object or shape recognition) and multi-axes command. Our clients are international groups (BOUYGUES, SNECMA, VEOLIA, EDF…) as well as start-ups or SMEs and research laboratories or universities. We serve various sectors from Defense to construction or . security, health, personal assistance and events. We are officially labelled as a Technological Resources Centre (CIF). CRIIF developped SAMI, a human size semi-humanoid mobile robot, that is autonomous or tele-operated via a Kinect2 and Occulus rift glasses. SAMI allows the user to assist a person remotely or to operate remotely in an hostile environment. SAMI has been praised by several media outlet such as Forbes, Bloomberg, Engadget, Gizmodo, TF1, France2, France3, CANAL+, France5, Arte, RTL, France Inter, France Info, France Culture…
SYROBO is the professional association of service robotic in France. SYROBO is the founding partner of INNOROBO, the European service robotic trade show organized in Lyon, France.
DEFI Mécatronic includes engineering SMEs and subcontractors in mechatronics. We adress several markets like : health, scientific instrumentation, maintenance, energy and environment.
In charge of the industrialization of the 206 Peugeot.