robotics

Technological advances • October 13, 2025

October 13, 2025 | Hybrid AI for safe, high-performance robotic planning

Understanding unknown environments in a way that allows them to operate within strict safety constraints remains a challenge for robots. And that is the challenge our teams have taken on in the Magicoders project, combining the strengths of symbolic AI and generative AI in a new approach.

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press releases • October 9, 2025

October 8, 2025 | A world first: SADE and CEA-List develop a robot for rehabilitating water supply networks

At the Pollutec trade show in Lyon from 7 to 10 October 2025, SADE – the NGE Group’s specialised water cycle subsidiary – and List, an institute of the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) specialising in intelligent digital systems, have announced the launch of the TUBOCONTACT SD (Tubocontact small diameters) solution.

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press releases • September 9, 2025

September 9, 2025 | TCS and CEA Partner to Advance Physical AI Research and Innovation in France

The partnership between CEA and TCS aims to develop intelligent robotics solutions for real-world applications across various industrial sectors and strengthen Indo-European industrial competitiveness.

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2024 Activity Report • June 27, 2025

Generative AI successfully applied to robotic grasping

CEA-List’s smart robotics demonstrator highlights generative AI’s potential as an enabler of robotic tasks whose instructions are given in natural language.

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2024 Activity Report • June 5, 2025

Dexterous bimanual manipulation

CEA-List developed a dexterous bimanual manipulation system : its multiple reconfigurable fingers are equipped with multimode perception capabilities. The system can carry out 80 different grips, using finely controlled force, and detect slippage.

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Technological advances • February 13, 2025

February 13, 2025 | Abilis: Dexterous robotic gripping that is both strong and sensitive

CEA-List’s Abilis dexterous gripper was developed with one goal in mind: to make task completion more precise than ever by giving robots the ability to manipulate a broad array of delicate objects. And Abilis has exactly what it takes to complete high-dexterity tasks efficiently.

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Technological advances • August 27, 2024

August 27, 2024 | A real-time industrial robotic controller development framework

The robotic controllers on the market today do not generally offer the interfaces and operating modes needed for CEA-List’s and partners’ teleoperation, cobotics, and robotics R&D.

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Technological advances • November 30, 2023

October 10, 2023 | Agile robotics for better electronic waste recycling

Electronic waste is one of the major issues around rapid global digital growth.

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