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Starting with the fundamentals Prototype Version 0 AI, Software, Hardware A small team, 9 months Designed and assembled in Paris at @UMA_Robots

YC x Unaite Hackathon winner, that’s so incredible! 🚀 I’m not much of a pro with X posting , so I’ll let my mate introduce the project. 😎

@praedico @unaite @ycombinator You guyes were cracked … so thrilled building with you ! 🔥

This weekend, our team won Paris Builds, a 36-hour selective hackathon by @Unaite, in partnership with @ycombinator. In just 36 hours, we built VIGIE, a robot safety watchdog & harness, an external runtime safety layer for learning-based robots. It watches the robot and its workspace through cameras from the environment, detects dangerous situations, and can pause, hold, and resume a real OpenARM / LeRobot run when the scene becomes unsafe — with a demo harness interfaced with the @LeRobotHF framework. The core idea behind VIGIE is that robot safety should not depend only on the robot policy itself. Today, most robots still operate with little to no external safety harness. The robot executes actions, but there is no independent runtime layer continuously asking: “Is the current scene still safe?” “Is a human hand entering the workspace?” “Is the robot about to continue an action that became dangerous?” We see this as a layered roadmap. Huge shoutout to Joseph @Batatasfri13181 , Maelic, Tristan @tristanlecourt and Raph, amazing sprint. A very special thank you to Alba @leader_arm for helping us set up the OpenARM. Huge thanks as well to @Unaite for organizing the event, and to the mentors, jury members, and partners who pushed us throughout the weekend — including @dessaigne, people from @gs_ai_ , @MistralAI , Qube Research & Technologies, and the broader ecosystem around the event. Big thanks to Stephenson Harwood Paris for hosting us in central Paris. And the cherry on top: winning the hackathon means we earned a YC interview for a chance to join a future batch, which is an incredible opportunity. Repo here: github.com/TristanLecourt…