www.codiax.co

1. From Hospitals to Museums
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How Robotics can Enhance your
Customer Satisfaction
Jade Le Maître – CTO & Co-founder – Hease
Codiax Conference – Cluj-Napoca- Romania

2. Jade LE MAÎTRE
R O B O T H U M A N
C T O & C O - F O U N D E R @ H E A S E @ a r a t t a
E x p e r t E v a l u a t o r
R o b o t i c s & A I
B u s i n e s s A n g e l
T e c h n i c a l A d v i s o r
S e c r e t a r y & B o a r d
M e m b e r
H R & D i v e r s i t y
C o m m i s s i o n
M e n t o r @
I O T & M a n u f a c t o r i n g
N e t w o r k
F o u n d i n g M e m b e r
A I & I O T , R o b o t i c s

3. We are full-stack
robotics experts
From 5 to 25 skilled experts, dedicated to build
robust and reliable robot platforms.
Robotics
Mechanics & Mecatronics
Electronics
Embedded systems
Sensors
Mobility & Navigation
Human Machine Interface
Design
…
Software
Architecture
UX & UI design
Front & Back-End
Continuous Integration
Test Driven & Code Quality
check
Virtualization / Containerization
Security
…
Data
Collection, Analysis
Data Mining
Text Mining
Dataviz
Big data
…
IA
Machine Learning
Social Signal Processing
Multimodal Sensor Fusion
SLAM (Simultaneous Localization
& Mapping)
Vision
…

4. TR1 to TRL9 in less
than 3 years,
really?

5. PROBLEMS
30%
NOT DEDICATED TO SELLING
O F T H E S A L E S P E R S O N
T I M E
O F Q U E S T I O N S …
80%
“WHERE ARE THE TOILETS”
I N C R E A S E I N S A L E S
A M O U N T
25%
IF A KIOSK IS EQUIPPED WITH
PAYMENT

6. EXISTING SOLUTIONS
Before building a robot, let’s check the competition…
R E L A Y
Room-service
✅ It works
❌ Hard to integrate
P E P P E R
Welcome
✅ Well known
❌ No customization
S A N B O T
Welcome
✅ Nano Price
❌ Too ”small”
F U R O
Welcome
✅ Big Screen
❌ Hard to integrate

7. EXISTING SOLUTIONS
Before building a robot, let’s check the competition…
R E L A Y
Room-service
✅ It works
❌ Hard to integrate
P E P P E R
Welcome
✅ Well known
❌ No customization
S A N B O T
Welcome
✅ Nano Price
❌ Too ”small”
F U R O
Welcome
✅ Big Screen
❌ Hard to integrate
H E A S Y
Welcome & guide
✅ Customization, big screen,
easy to integrate, works

8. A mobile robot kiosk robot designed to bring
people the information they need, at the right
time, and the right place.
Easy to use
With its big interactive screen and its
funny expressions (eyes and sounds),
Heasy interacts naturally with humans,
being kids or grown-ups J
Mobile and accessible
Heasy can navigate its space for more
than 10 hours and interact with humans
in an agreeable way.
Easy to manage
We developped a robot management
platform to manage easily your robot
(applications, graphics, statistics, places
to go….) remotely.
Meet HEASY

10. What’s inside?

11. 2016: The First Prototype… in about 100 days

12. 2017: First customer interactions with our robot

13. 2018: Let’s industrialize

14. (Almost) European Sourcing

15. Sketches 1st CAD 1st Prototype 2nd CAD 2nd Prototype 3rd CAD
Commercial
Design
In a nutshell: 2,5 years of R&D until the final product

16. THE SOFTWARE STACK
FRONTMIDDLEWARE
FIRMWAREOPERATING SYSTEM
Linux Debian
Based on MicroServices (Python /
NodeJS / C++), Socket.io server
Programming language: C
on ChibiOS
Framework: Vue.JS
Display: Electron

17. HARDWARE COMPONENTS
LED Matrix &
Speakers for
HRI
Full HD 18,5’’
screen
10+ hours of
battery
Tilt & pan
movement
RGB Camera
Mobile platform Ultrasound,
Laser and
LIDAR sensors
TYPE SPECS
1550 x 700 x 700 mm
70 Kg (140 lb)
White & Blue – optional: other colors
RGB Camera – FoV: 141°
2 x 90 dB speakers – 2 microphones
18,5’’ HD Screen (1920 x 1080 px – 10fps to 30fps)
3mm pitch 64x32 LED Matrix
LiFePo4 Battery, operating time of 10 hours
UP Squared Pentium Quad Core
4GB memory/32GB eMMC
Maximum speed of 3km/h for HRI
Wi-fi 5GHz / 2,4 Ghz
4 Ultrasound - 16m range , 50° Directivity
20 Laser – 4 meter range, FoV of 27°
1 Lidar – optional – 16m range
IMU – 6D orientation, gyro
Size H x L x l
Weight
Color
Camera
Sound
Screens
Battery
Motherboard
Mobile platform
Connectivity
Sensors
Wifi
connectivity

18. DEDICATED TO HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
Thanks to its set of 25 emotions combined with sounds, its rounded and cute design, HEASY-ER interacts
with humans in its environments and creates an empathetic link with them – kids as well as grown-ups are
always happy to interact with HEASY-ER!

19. ROBOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

20. HARDWARE INTEGRATIONS
v
PAYMENT TERMINAL
14’’ BACK SCREEN
NFC INTEGRATION
COMING SOON: THERMAL PRINTER

21. Some Use Cases

22. Welcoming and Guiding in a Train Station
A HEASY Robot at the SNCF Train Station @Aix En Provence
Results obtained:
• 78 sessions a day
• 1 feedback for 2 sessions
• Mean interaction duration: 1min 07s
• 1,1 apps used per session (mostly : BUS)
• 79% positive feedbacks collected
• 3 phases:
• Welcoming Only
• Welcoming and Guiding to elevators
• Welcoming & Guiding on 2 levels
Start: A p r i l 2 0 1 8
End: ONGOING

24. Welcoming in a Shopping Mall
Two HEASY Robots at in two E.Leclerc Shopping Malls
In competition with : Static Kiosks (2 shopping malls) & Mobile App (650
shopping malls)
Results obtained:
• 21 times more participants than with the
static kiosk
• 3 times more participants than with the
mobile app
• Followed by the acquisition of 10 robots
in 2019.
Start: N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 7
End: J a n u a r y 2 0 1 8

25. Welcoming in a Gas Station // Highway rest station
A HEASY Robot at the Total Gas Station in Narbonne
Results obtained:
• 11 000 sessions over the whole period
(foot traffic: 210 000 persons)
• 17 sessions per hour when the robot
was in use
• We collected a lot of feedback from the
Gas Station Team, people were happy to
have the robot around them
Start: D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 7
End: February 2018

26. Interactive Museography in a Museum
A HEASY Robot at the Lascaux Museum –
by Generation Robots
Start: J u n e 2 0 1 9
End: September 2019

27. Soon: Heasy in Hospitals

31. Thank you for your
attention!

32. Sales Office
Paris - FRANCE
EMEA Office
Luxembourg
Headquarters
Lyon - FRANCE
Contact us:
jade@heaserobotics.com
Website:
https://heaserobotics.com