Activities
About us
CATIE (Centre Aquitain des technologies de l’Information et Électronique) is a non-profit organization founded in 2014 at the initiative of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region and local businesses.
We are a unique Technology Resource Center in France, thanks to our multidisciplinary team of PhDs and engineers from both industry and academia. Our expertise spans a wide range of fields, including mathematics, computer science, digital and analog electronics, and cognitive sciences.
We support companies through a step-by-step approach: proofs of concept, consulting, expert advice, technical solutions, and a forward-thinking, cross-disciplinary perspective. Our mission is to help businesses overcome technological barriers, adopt innovative technologies, gain new knowledge, access strategic resources, and enhance their capabilities.
By doing so, we contribute to their pursuit of excellence and innovation. Our scientific approach enables us to deliver optimal and sustainable technical solutions, with a strong emphasis on local collaboration and a commitment to building a virtuous innovation ecosystem.
Our solutions are grounded in our research activities and custom designs, helping businesses de-risk and accelerate their R&D with objective, vendor-neutral technologies.
Technology Innovation Platforms
6TRON
6TRON is a professional solution development environment for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), developed by CATIE.
From rapid prototyping to the creation of optimized devices and their operational tools, you are supported by the resources of the 6TRON platform and, if desired, accompanied by its ecosystem.
Comprised of local experts—especially from the electronics sector—6TRON covers all major themes of IIoT.
PEAC²H
Designed for mid-sized companies (ETI/SMEs), businesses, and other organizations needing to involve end-users in their design processes, PEAC²H was created to democratize and simplify the implementation of scientific Human Factors approaches.
PEAC²H offers free, online technological building blocks—developed from CATIE’s projects and technology monitoring—that enable users to create a study from start to finish (or use available templates), define participant groups, and organize the experimental timeline (response steps) to evaluate concepts (surveys, scales, etc.).
VANIILA
Designed to raise awareness among SMEs and mid-sized companies about the potential of AI and support their skills development, VANIILA is an open-access platform.
Within a preconfigured and optimized workspace, VANIILA offers users technological building blocks—developed from CATIE’s projects and technology monitoring—use cases, and tutorials that simplify understanding and implementation.
Connected to powerful AI-dedicated computing resources, these tools provide a comprehensive and unified technical foundation that helps reduce learning time and accelerate innovation projects.
Demonstrator
CATIE ROBOTICS
As a Technology Resource Center, CATIE boasts a wide range of expertise and strong connections with engineering schools, research laboratories, and high-tech startups.
Founded in early 2018, the CATIE Robotics team focuses on applied service robotics and thrives within a multidisciplinary environment.
Our robot, EPOCK, is built upon a set of technological building blocks developed across our three departments.
It serves as an ideal demonstrator of CATIE’s complementary expertise, showcased in international robotics competitions—especially in the RoboCup@Home category.
The results achieved with EPOCK confirm the reliability, efficiency, and robustness of our technological solutions.
