The startup Inclusive Brains joins the TEAM technology incubator on the Georges Charpak Provence campus. It will benefit from the support and scientific expertise of the incubator through the School’s researchers and engineers.
The story of Inclusive Brains
Inclusive Brains is a startup co-founded by Paul Barbaste and Olivier Oullier that is developing a new generation of brain–machine interfaces (BMIs). These interfaces not only make it possible to control connected objects and digital environments with thought, but will also give machines the ability to sense their users’ cognitive, affective, and physiological states in real time.
BCIs offer people with severe motor disabilities (e.g., quadriplegia, upper limb paralysis, ALS) the possibility of controlling connected objects (computer, phone, wheelchair, home automation) and digital environments (augmented reality, virtual reality/metaverse) through thought. Mental commands require no touching, moving, or speaking to control a computer, for example. They therefore constitute the optimal tool for restoring autonomy and access to education and employment for people with motor disabilities.
Disability is a driver of inclusion, innovation, and also economic growth. The remote control and voice assistants are innovations that were originally developed to improve the daily lives of people with disabilities before entering the daily lives of billions of households. This is the path that Inclusive Brains wishes to follow with its products.
They are thus working with institutional partners and industrial partners to integrate Brain O.S. into everyday objects (computers, earphones, construction helmets, virtual reality headsets) and to test, deploy, and democratize our technology so that it benefits the greatest number of people.
The product developed by Inclusive Brains
The main product developed by Inclusive Brains is the Brain Operating System or Brain O.S. It is a set of artificial intelligence algorithms (machine and deep learning) acting as a digital twin of the user’s brain. This twin will model, learn, understand, and predict users’ actions and decisions. Thanks to Brain O.S., machines and connected environments will learn with each use, thus offering unprecedented personalization, adaptation, and prediction capabilities.
Brain O.S. is currently being developed to help people with disabilities.
We are very pleased to launch our first industrial project on the use of artificial intelligence and its hybridization with quantum algorithms for biosignal classification with the researchers, engineers, and students of Mines Saint-Étienne.
Paul Barbaste and Olivier Oullier, co-founders of Inclusive Brains
The TEAM incubator and links with the School and its research departments
Inclusive Brains is joining TEAM to benefit from the support and scientific and technical expertise provided by our Georges Charpak Provence campus. Thanks to TEAM, they will be able to collaborate with internationally renowned researchers and engineers, as well as students.
The TEAM technology incubator relies on the expertise and resources of the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne to support the creation of innovative technology companies. Created in 2004 on the Georges Charpak Provence campus, and in 2016 on the Saint-Étienne campus, TEAM represents: 60 projects supported, 80% survival rate at 5 years, €3.1M raised in 2021.
