Akka Technologies is an engineering and technology consulting group. The group is positioned in all industrial and tertiary sectors of activity, namely aeronautics, automotive, energy, railways, defense, space, information systems and telecommunications.
In 2019-2022, we have established a recurrent collaboration with AKKA to transfer our know-how on collaborative robotics design. Two partnerships have been established.
The first one is a bilateral contract (Portage) which allowed the user-centered design of a semi-autonomous vehicle for pulling heavy loads. In coordination with Akka’s engineers, we used methodologies from the field of Human Factors to highlight the psychological factors leading to the occurrence of human errors. We then deduced interfaces and interaction modes and tested and validated our solutions. The second collaboration started in September 2021 through the supervision of a PhD (CIFRE) on the design of a cobotic solution for the assistance of a surgeon in an operating room.
A contract is currently signed with Akka for a PhD aiming at determining the best option for assisting the assistant of the surgeon during a surgical operation, using a collaborative robot.
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