Last 1st March, the first evening meeting of the French Corporate Vehicle Observatory took place in Paris, with Jean-Michel Billaut, the founder of the “Atelier”, interviewed by Jean de Chambure. 200 people attended the fascinating speech of Mister Billaut…

According to Jean-Michel Billaut, we are on the edge of the 3rd revolution and this latest will be structured among groups of convergent technologies:
- the nanotechnologies
- the humanoid robots
- the renewable energies
- the biotechnologies or the synthetic biology 

the humanoid robots
Jean-Michel Billaut rapidly presented Jean-Christophe Bailly, a developer of operating systems used to control the mechanical elements or the robots. He came with Aibo, the dog robot, whose production was recently stopped by Sony.Both underline the important excitement and the fascination exerted by robotic, with the path from a useful conception of the robot to the idea of a “friend-robot”.

The renewable energies
“Do you know that Sweden wants to put an end to its dependence in oil before 2020?” said Jean-Michel Billaut. Reserves in fossil energies run out. It becomes very urgent to turn to new forms of energies, like hydrogen or solar.

The biotechnologies or the synthetic biology
The objective of biotechnologies is to produce living matter from synthetic matter. Important efforts were set up in this sense. “What about the Internet?” launched Jean de Chambure. The web will have in this 3rd revolution, the same role as printing in the past: allow capitalizing the knowledge and increase the knowledge mass.

The nanotechnologies
As their names indicate it, the field of nanotechnologies is the nanometer (10-9m). We are at the atoms scale. The atoms manipulation will allow reversing the production sense. If we take the example of the paper, we go from the tree to the sheet of paper, in an “up and down” logic. The nanotechnologies allow reversing this production: from the atom (bottom) to the sheet (up), in proceeding to a reorganization of the material. The scientists already work on the creation of molecule machines able to make such an assembly.