Journalist Camille Rustici has shared an op-ed by Jérôme Laplace, CEO of Running Brains Robotics, on DirectIndustry e-Magazine, as well called the Industry News for Business Leaders.
In this article, Jérôme Laplace addresses a major issue for Europe: european sovereignty cannot simply be decreed. It must be built, through engineering expertise, industrial knowledge, local production and software mastery.
For us, Running Brains Robotics, sovereignty is not only about producing robots in Europe. It is about mastering what makes an autonomous security robot reliable, secure and operational in the field: design, mechanics, electronics, navigation and algorithms, the supervision interface, the servers that host the data, and the sensors that collect it, all into a coherent system developed in-house.
This issue is particularly critical for sensitive-site protection. Energy facilities, oil and gas sites, chemical plants, data centers, transport hubs, storage areas, defence sites and military bases all rely on technologies that collect and process strategic data. When an autonomous robot patrols these environments continuously, the question is no longer only technical. It becomes a matter of operational control and cybersecurity.
This is the choice we made, Running Brains Robotics, more than eighteen years ago: to design, develop and produce our autonomous security robots in France, in Mérignac, with our engineering teams. Our navigation and perception algorithms are developed and continuously improved internally. The Running Brains Operations Center, RBOC, is also developed in-house, while the data it processes is hosted in France and encrypted end-to-end.
Read the full OP-ED on DirectIndustry 
OP-ED. Robotics, AI, Security: European Sovereignty Cannot Be Decreed, It Must Be Built
CMO at Running Brains Robotics
