Karama Guimbal is a robotics engineer at Bluefrog Robotics. At the same time, she teaches on the ColRobot Specialized Master's program, training tomorrow's professionals in service robotics.
After completing a master's degree in medical robotics, Karama Guimbal worked for a year and a half in industrial robotics. At the end of 2015, she joined the Bluefrog Robotics team as a robotics engineer. She works every day to bring robots into the home environment and turn them into fully-fledged companions. "Today, I work in the hardware division at Bluefrog Robotics, studying the commercialization of our Buddy robot. Compared to my previous professional experiences, the technical challenges are the same, but with different constraints. Seeking to optimize the navigation of an industrial robot or a companion robot is not very different. What is different, however, are the constraints, particularly financial ones."
And it is precisely these constraints that Karama Guimbal teaches to students in the Colrobot Specialized Master's program. Using case studies, the engineer presents the different areas of service robotics and the issues encountered. Students appreciate this different approach, as Simon, a ColRobot MS student, explains: "This course gives us a different perspective on robotics, but also on business, since Bluefrog is more like a start-up than a large industrial group, which is what we are more used to working with."
The Colrobot Specialized Master's® program trains students in collaborative robotics, mainly for industry, but also for service robotics. According to Richard Béarée, director of the program, "The courses on service robotics allow our students to keep an open mind, making them aware that, even if the core business is the same, the constraints are different because the end customer is different. "
