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SOPHIE SAKKA, recipient of the Entrepreneurship prize at the DIGITAL Ouest 2016

Congratulations to Sophie Sakka, Centrale Nantes researcher and professor, who was awarded the entrepreneurship prize for her Rob’autism project at this year’s edition of Digital Ouest, one of the key events of Nantes Digital Week.

on September 20, 2016

Rob'autism is the story of unprecedented experimental interaction between a robot and children with autism spectrum disorder. Sophie Sakka developed this project which involves several partners - Centrale Nantes, the Samothrace Psychotherapeutic Centre (Nantes University Hospital), Stereolux, and Robots! Association.

She received the Digital Ouest's entrepreneurship prize for this excellent initiative on 16th September after having been selected for the final pitches presented at the award ceremony.

 


Published on September 26, 2016 Updated on March 24, 2017