
Our pilot
Christophe Huchet
Now 54 years old, Christophe was born with an agenesis of the right arm including the elbow. While studying business, he began a career as a swimmer. Many times French Champion of 100-meter breaststroke races in parasports category, it is however among valid athletes that he is the happiest to reach the finals and step on podiums. He also got the French Swimming Federation to modify its rules, after being regularly disqualified for not touching the wall with both hands! Over the last 20 years, Christophe has created several restaurants in Paris, that he recently sold in order to resume his studies and become a certified coach. His goal is now to guide the managers of small and medium-sized companies, as well as he had been guided as a company manager himself. Christophe has been the official pilot of the Smart ArM team since Cybathlon 2020 and won the Cybathlon Challenge in 2022 in the ARM race. After the rich and intense adventures of these participations, he keeps training for Cybathlon 2024, which should be just as exciting!
TECHNICAL TEAM
On the robotics side, the Smart ArM team brings together researchers and engineers from the Institut of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) at Sorbonne University in Paris and the Movement Science Institute (ISM) at the University of Aix-Marseille.

Team
← Nathanaël Jarrassé
CNRS researcher in robotics
Team manager
Sébastien Mick →
Research engineer (PhD)
Océane Dubois →
PhD student in robotics




← Clémence Drouot
PhD in robotics
← Guillaume Samain
PhD student in robotics
Christophe Blanc →
Engineer in mechatronics


← Alexis Poignant
PhD in robotics
Robin Gibaud →
Engineer in robotics
Laurent Fabre →
Technician in mechanics




← Étienne Moullet
PhD in robotics
← Andrea Campanelli
Graduate student in robotics
Philippe Gauthier →
Engineer in robotics


← Jozina De Graaf
Lecturer in neurosciences
Guillaume Morel →
Robotics professor

MEDICAL TEAM
The team is accompanied by ortho-prosthetists and specialized clinicians from the Regional Institute of Rehabilitation (IRR) of UGECAM Nord-Est, in Nancy.

Medical team
← Marie Béal
Ortho-prosthetist
Amélie Touillet, Noël Martinet, Jean Paysant →
Specialized clinicians
Physical rehabilitation and medicine



ALUMNI
Former members of Team SAM since its creation in 2019!

← Charlotte Marchand
Mechatronics engineer
Technical manager, electronic design and myoelectric control
Jesús Mago →
PhD student in robotics
Pilot coach
Florian Richer →
Robotics engineer (CNRS)
Software




← Mathilde Legrand
PhD student in robotics
Movement-based control mode
←Alexandre Peudpièce
Mechanical engineer
Design of the exoskeletal elbow joint
Alexis Devillard →
Robotics engineer
Design of the control panel wristband



← Gaël Le Buan Mania
Engineering student in robotics
Haptic feedback design
←Fabien Vérité
Lecturer in robotics
Haptic feedback