Inbolt joins the 2026 cohort of French Tech 2030, one of eight robotics companies among the 80 startups France is backing to master its strategic technologies.

Paris, 16 October 2026. Inbolt has been selected for the 2026 cohort of French Tech 2030, the State programme run by La Mission French Tech for French startups developing strategic technologies. It is Inbolt’s second consecutive selection, and one of eight laureates in robotics.

In its press kit for the cohort, the French government highlights Inbolt among the laureates helping large companies innovate: “Inbolt’s AI solutions make robotic automation simple, flexible and cost-effective: at Stellantis, the technology has reduced stoppages on a production line by 97%.”

A cohort built to make France technologically independent

The third French Tech 2030 cohort brings together 80 deeptech companies across eight sectors: artificial intelligence, space, quantum, cybersecurity, robotics, semiconductors, health, and energy and decarbonisation. Together, they have filed 842 patents, invested €211 million in R&D in 2025 and raised €1.5 billion since their creation. They generate nearly 4,000 jobs in France, and 79% already operate internationally, across 42 countries.

The laureates were selected by a committee bringing together the Direction générale des Entreprises (DGE), Bpifrance, France Deeptech, Scaleway and Sopra Steria. Sopra Steria’s CEO, Rajesh Krishnamurthy, is sponsoring this year’s cohort.

For one year, laureates get direct access to the State and its partners. That covers support with financing, international expansion and commercial partnerships, and a network of French Tech correspondents in more than 60 administrations and public services.

A mission measured in minutes

Today it takes months to deploy an industrial robot. Most of that time goes into engineering around the robot’s blindness: custom fixtures, mechanical indexing, extra sensors, wiring, and retuning every time a part or position shifts. That cost is why most plants automate only a few stations, and why so much of manufacturing is still done by hand.

Inbolt’s mission is to bring robot deployment down to minutes. At that speed, automation stops being a few flagship projects per plant and scales to every station, in every factory.

From CAD to live robot control

Inbolt’s platform covers the full path from a part’s CAD file to a robot adapting in real time, in three modules:

• Inbolt Robot Programming: a simulation environment to program any robot task from a digital twin.
• Inbolt Vision Model: a generalist vision model trained on a part’s CAD file in under five minutes, locally, with no image dataset to collect.
• Inbolt Robot Control: a software layer that streams corrected positions to the robot controller in real time, so the robot follows the part wherever it actually sits, on static or moving lines.

The platform runs natively on FANUC, ABB, KUKA, Yaskawa, Comau and Universal Robots.

What a year changes

When Inbolt joined French Tech 2030 in 2025, its technology was already in production with major automotive manufacturers. Since then:

• Inbolt has expanded from vision guidance into a full platform covering robot programming, a vision model and control.
• Inbolt opened its United States and Japanese offices.
• Inbolt launched as native on Universal Robots’ new Gen 7 range.
• Inbolt has expanded into new segments such as data centers.
• Inbolt systems powered more than 40 million robot cycles in 2025.

Today, more than 200 Inbolt systems run in factories across Europe, the United States and Japan, for manufacturers including Stellantis, Toyota, Ford, GM, Renault and Beko.

“The French government chose to cite a production line at Stellantis. That’s exactly the point,” said Rudy Cohen, CEO and co-founder of Inbolt.

Inbolt thanks La Mission French Tech for its renewed support and congratulates the 79 other companies in the 2026 cohort.

About Inbolt

Inbolt makes robots see the real world and adapt to it, in real time. Its platform closes the loop between AI perception and robot control, turning digital twins into live robot control and eliminating the fixtures, retuning and custom integration that have kept automation expensive. Trained on CAD in minutes and native to FANUC, ABB, KUKA, Yaskawa, Comau and Universal Robots, Inbolt runs on 200+ systems in factories on three continents. Trusted by Stellantis, Toyota, Beko, GM and Ford.