Atos and Inria sign research partnership on physical AI, agentic AI and robotics

Nov 10, 2026
Atos will join Inria and CNRS's Maestro robotics consortium, and Inria's WILLOW robotics lead Justin Carpentier joins Atos' Scientific Committee in France.

Atos Group and Inria formed a research partnership covering artificial intelligence, robotics and cybersecurity, Inria said. The initial areas include physical AI, agentic AI, digital twins and autonomous systems.

The partnership lets Atos teams draw on Inria's project teams to build the scientific foundations for their innovation projects.

Atos plans to join Maestro, a robotics research consortium established by Inria and the French National Centre for Scientific Research in July 2026. Maestro is developing an open-source software suite intended to give robots autonomous decision-making capabilities in complex and unstructured environments. Justin Carpentier, head of Inria's WILLOW robotics project team, will also join Atos Group's Scientific Committee in France.

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