About Us?

Discover Learning Robots, its mission, history, values, and expert team.

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Our Mission: Making Artificial Intelligence Accessible to All

Democratizing AI to enable everyone to participate in this technological revolution.

The Impact of AI

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing industry, healthcare, and services, while also raising essential ethical, philosophical, and societal issues that need to be understood.

Our Commitment

We firmly believe that everyone, regardless of their age or knowledge level, should be able to access the basics of artificial intelligence.

AlphAI, Our Solution

Our AlphAI solution makes learning artificial intelligence intuitive, interactive, and accessible, thanks to a fun and visual approach.

Learning Robots was born out of Thomas Deneux's research work at the CNRS Neuro PSI laboratory. Founded in 2020, over 10,000 students and 2,000 employees have been trained in AI. The company has benefited from the support of Université Paris-Saclay and the innovative Edu'Up and Innov'Up programs.
Today, we are located on the Saclay plateau, a recognized hub for innovation and research. More than 240 European institutions use our AlphAI solution to introduce and train their students and employees in AI concepts, using a fun and visual approach.

What guides Learning Robots

Our Team:
The Faces of Learning Robots

At Learning Robots, we share the same mission: to make AI accessible, intuitive, and engaging for everyone. Meet our team of experts dedicated to creating innovative and fun solutions for learning AI.

Thomas Deneux
Founder and Scientific Director

Thomas Deneux is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, holds an agrégation in Mathematics, and has a PhD in Computer Vision. As a Research Engineer at CNRS within the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neurosciences for about ten years, he conducts research in neurorobotics and founded the startup Learning Robots in May 2020. He is convinced of the many challenges AI presents for society and of young people's ability to grasp both its technical and societal aspects.

Axel Haentjens
General Manager

Axel Haentjens is an alumnus of CentraleSupélec, with 25 years of experience at the Orange Group in Strategy, Sales, Marketing, and Communication roles. He launched the "One Cloud" project at the Orange Group in the early 2010s and, until 2019, served as Director of Strategic Partnerships in data management, cloud, and cybersecurity. He brings to Learning Robots his expertise in corporate strategy, strategic partnership management, and international business.

Simon Collet
Software Development Director

An engineer from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Simon Collet holds a doctorate in theoretical computer science (specializing in algorithmic game theory) and a degree in mathematics. After two years as a teacher, he joined Learning Robots to take charge of all AlphAI software development and teaching tools.

Marie Martin
Research, Pedagogy, Education

A school teacher for 15 years, Marie Martin has experimented with the introduction of digital technology in general, and robotics in particular, into her classroom practices. She currently works as a digital educational advisor for the Essonne department, and is also studying for a Master 2 in "Learning Sciences" at the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire in Paris. This year, she joined Learning Robots to put her experience at the service of developing educational tools for elementary schools.

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Awards and Recognition

Since our beginning, Learning Robots has earned several awards, showing our dedication to new ways of teaching and making AI easy to understand. We are proud to have the support of respected partners and to be recognized by both the education and technology fields.

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What our clients think

Discover how other schools and businesses have transformed their educational approach with Learning Robots to demystify and understand artificial intelligence.

I find the AlphAI software and Learning Robots a very good solution for familiarizing my students with artificial intelligence. The learning path takes you step by step through the complexities of AI, with very practical, well-documented exercises.

Holger Buchmann
Berufliches Gymnasium, BBS Burgdorf, Germany

The AlphAI solution is an excellent tool for introducing middle and high school students to artificial intelligence in a fun and captivating way. Over 2,100 boys and girls were trained at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in 2024, and over 3,500 in the last two years.

Marc Jamous
Science Communicator at Universcience, France

Thanks for this tutorial! It's really more fun to learn this way. We understand better when we manipulate than with mathematical equations, and even then that's how we understand the mathematical components.

Mathéo
Student at EFREI

AlphAI fills the gap in artificial intelligence education. It's our greatest discovery of the last seven years!

Albert Wong
President of AiTLE Association of HK I.T. Leaders in Education 資訊科技教育領袖協會

I'm very happy with this hardware and software, which demonstrates the concepts of artificial intelligence in a very simple way. I hope to be able to continue using it for years to come.

Michel Balandier
Professor in Digital Sciences Charleville-Mézières (France)

As far as the pedagogical value is concerned, there's no doubt about it: these machines are a fantastic support, and the students have been hyper-responsive with them.

Christophe Maury
Prof. NSI Pont-à-Mousson (FR)

I'd like to remind you once again of the quality of the support you give us: if properly implemented, AI teaching will be a real plus for our young people!

Vincent Honorat
High school teacher, Aix-en-Provence

The AlphAI solution, supported by the French Ministry of Education's Edu-Up commission, makes the effects of AI programming tangible, in line with the development of educational robotics.

Policy Officer / Seconded National Expert
Digital Education European Commission

I bought the first AlphAI in 2022. Since then, it has become a regular part of my teaching on artificial intelligence. One of the good things about AlphAI is that it's easy for students to start using. But its great strength lies above all in the visual representation of a neural network in the software, which makes understanding a neural network much clearer for students.

Mikkel Heise Kofoed
Astra - The National Science Center in Denmark

Thank you very much, sir, for this practical course, it was really great. The added value is enormous in the part where you see the q-table, to see all that live, the resnet and all that, it 'imprints in the brain it's nickel.

Léonard Gonzalez
M2 student at EFREI engineering school, Reinforcement Learning major

With Learning Robots, Thuasne supports its teams as they build their AI skills thanks to a practical, accessible approach.

Valentin Strach
Artificial Intelligence Solutions Manager

To my knowledge, it's the best existing solution for teaching neural networks.

Reinhard Gerndt
Professor Doctor in charge of Internationalization, Chairman of the Board of Examiners for Digital Technologies, Faculty of Computer Science

We were looking for a simple, compact and robust system to explain the workings of artificial intelligence in an understandable way. Learning Robots and AlphAI fully convinced us: without lengthy explanations, AI becomes tangible, neural networks are clearly represented and the whole system remains very accessible. Our expectations were fully met - and students can also work on more complex tasks thanks to the Python interface.

Florian Geiser
Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen, Germany, Faculty of Engineering, Business Engineering curriculum

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