Portrait of Albane Dersey

I'm the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Inbolt.

At Inbolt, we're making robots smarter and more flexible thanks to a real-time tracking technology based on 3D Vision and AI. We have deployed our solution across more than 150 robots right now in 50+ factories on three different continents, the United States, Europe and then Asia.

I got into robotics a few years ago. Actually, we started the company five years ago with two associates right after university. The idea for the company started out on a technology that is using 3D Vision and AI for real-time part position localization that we decided to adapt to robotics to guide robots in real-time and server control them because we identified a big need for more flexibility and more autonomous robots in the manufacturing industry.

Right now, manufacturers have no choice but to automate and this is why the field is evolving super fast. AI, of course, had a big role to play in that and right now customers want to have AI in their factories.

At Inbolt, we've managed to stay ahead of the curve and deliver real value to our customers by going on site and installing our solutions as much as possible, to listen to our customers and be able to deliver value right now while also anticipating what they will need later. Our solution enables robots to be smarter and have more flexibility on the assembly lines.

The challenges that the customers are facing is the lack of flexibility that robots have, which leads to high cost of automation and a low payback or a payback in very long time. By putting vision systems on robots and making them smarter, we enable customers to automate with a return on investment as short as possible.

There is definitely a lack of diversity right now in the field and if I would advise young women in STEM or young women to look for a career in robotics is just to ask questions and really get to understand the end customer. That will drive your whole understanding of the industry and also the solutions that you need to bring them.

Being selected as one of the women in robotics for 2025 definitely means a great spotlight and has been a great proof of achievement from what I've done with Inbolt. Currently building a company of 40 people across three continents, US, Europe and Japan to make robots smarter in the manufacturing industry.

Find out more about IFR's initiative "Women in Robotics".