Jean-christophe Fauroux

Secretary General @ ROBOTICS PLACE

About

FR : MecaBotiX développe les robots modulaires M3-Cooper, pour transporter, lever et prélever en hauteur tout type de charge, stocker bien plus dans le même entrepôt et assister les opérateurs dans l’usine & le chantier durables du futur. La force du système repose sur sa conception modulaire : M3-Cooper est construit autour d’une brique robotique standardisée, pensée pour être produite à faible coût et avec une maintenance simplifiée. Assemblées de multiples façons, ces briques permettent de créer des robots évolutifs et reconfigurables, adaptés à de nombreux usages industriels et logistiques, tout en offrant une solution flexible, durable et facilement scalable. Je suis Jean-Christophe FAUROUX. Ma passion est de développer des robots ingénieux, véritablement utiles et durables, d’abord en tant qu’enseignant-chercheur puis maintenant entrepreneur. ==== EN: MecaBotiX develops the M3-Cooper modular robots, to transport, lift and pick at height any type of load, store much more in the same warehouse and support operators in the sustainable factory and construction site of the future. The strength of the system lies in its modular design: M3-Cooper is built around a standardized robotic brick, designed to be produced at low cost and with simplified maintenance. Assembled in multiple ways, these building blocks make it possible to create evolutive and reconfigurable robots, adapted to many industrial and logistical uses, while offering a flexible, durable and easily scalable solution. My name is Jean-Christophe FAUROUX. Developing ingenious, truly useful and sustainable robots is my passion, first as a professor, a researcher and now as an entrepreneur.

Country

France

City

Toulouse

Industry

Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering

Skill

Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Intellectual Property, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computer Science, Industrial Design, Solid Mechanics, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), Creativity, Mechanichal Design, Robotics, Research, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Project Management, Programming, Machine Design, Structural and dimensional synthesis of mechanisms, CAD, Finite Element Analysis, Modeling

Experience

President

MecaBotiX

2020-8 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

This is our new exciting start-up for developing disruptive poly-robots : our cooperative mobile manipulators can be interconnected and behave like a single robot. Strongly connected with research, initiated in the CNRS research lab Institut Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, the company settled up in Toulouse, at La Cité. Our M3-Cooper robots are proudly developed and produced in France.

Secretary General

ROBOTICS PLACE

2025-1 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

MecaBotiX contributes to the Robotics Place cluster since its creation and reinforces its actions since 2025. Robotics Place is one of the most active clusters in robotics in France since 2012, initially targeting industrial robotics, and extending in 2025 to medical and spatial robotics. The cluster gathers companies, research laboratories, universities and various providers of the robotics sector in order to develop the robotics sector in Occitanie and France.

Associate Professor / Researcher

IFMA – Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée

1999-9 - 2025-9 · 26 yrs 1 mo

Clermont-Ferrand Area, France

Research activities: - Structural and dimensional synthesis of machines, mechanisms and robots - Analysis and modelling of machine behavior in real conditions - Encyclopedias of virtual machines Research results in 2020: 24 prototypes, 4 PCT patents, 7 FR patents, more than 120 publications Educational activities - Computer Aided Design (3D shape modelling) - Computer Aided Engineering (material strength, Finite Element Method, optimization, multibody modelling, solid mechanics) - Computer science (CAD, programming, system modelling, databases) - Industrial Design

Associate Director

Institut Pascal

2017-1 - 2020-8 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Clermont-Ferrand Area, France

The mission contributes to the management of Institut Pascal, a research laboratory of 400 researchers and PhD students. The mission is focused more specifically on valorisation of research and intellectual property.

Officer in charge of valorisation of research and entreprise partnership

SIGMA Clermont

2016-1 - 2020-8 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Clermont-Ferrand Area, France

SIGMA Clermont was created in 2016 from the association of IFMA and ENSCCF. This mission includes intellectual property management and commercial development of research. I am still working as an associate professor with a double mission for education and research (see below for details).

Education

Université Clermont Auvergne

Mechanical Engineering

2015 - 2015

Subject : « Synthesis, design, modelling and experimentation of innovative machines - Application to agile mobile robots » / « Synthèse, conception, modélisation et expérimentation de machines innovantes. Application aux robots mobiles agiles »

INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse

Mechanical Engineering

1994 - 1999 · 5 yrs

Subject : "Conception optimale de structures cinematiques tridimensionnelles. Application aux mecanismes de transmission en rotation" / "Optimal design of 3D kinematic systems. Application to rotative transmission mechanisms"