The story
Trained at École Polytechnique, France's foremost school of science and engineering, Jean-Christophe Baillie studied computer science and theoretical physics, completed a PhD in artificial intelligence and robotics at Sorbonne University, working with Luc Steels at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris on language evolution and the developmental approach to intelligence.
He founded the ENSTA ParisTech robotics laboratory, where his research on developmental robotics produced urbiscript, a programming language for robots. That work became Gostai in 2006, acquired in 2012 by SoftBank Robotics Europe, the makers of the NAO and Pepper robots, where he founded its AI lab to continue research on developmental AI and the evolution of language.
In 2014 he founded Novaquark and created Dual Universe, a large-scale online world in which thousands of players build economies, politics and cities inside a single persistent simulation: an experiment, at industrial scale, in emergent social systems.
Developmental Labs brings these threads together. Three decades of research on how intelligence develops, applied as a senior engineering and R&D practice: AI systems designed, shipped and operated for clients who need them to hold.
