Our platforms
CEA-List has created several unique innovation platforms to support our research and facilitate the transfer of new technologies developed in our labs to industry.
These platforms provide structured environments where our engineers, researchers, and industrial partners can work together effectively to develop innovative solutions based on state-of-the-art digital technology. The shared resources—tools, technologies, and expertise—available at these platforms help more rapidly nurture new solutions to higher TRLs and prepare them for deployment in industrial environments.
Dedicated to technologies for the industry of the future, the PRISM platform is home to a unique set of digital resources that can be used for experimentation and testing in near real-world conditions. Research at PRISM spans robotics and cobotics, Digital Twins, AI and data, software engineering, digital continuity, and additive manufacturing. Once a technology has reached a sufficient TRL, it is integrated into the platform’s operational capabilities—the gateway to experimentation on real-world industrial use cases.
CEA-List’s innovation platforms are set up to capitalize on and combine technologies, supporting more agile and impactful research. The overriding objective is to speed up the emergence of concrete, sustainable, and competitive solutions to tomorrow’s industrial challenges.
Industrial transfers and applications
Cultivating both scientific excellence and a solid industrial culture are essential to transforming technological innovations into high added-value solutions—fulfilling our mission of supporting business’ competitiveness. Among the components of this strategy, which produces tangible results in terms of transferring our innovations to industry, are major government-funded research projects at the French and EU levels and the development of top-notch technology platforms. Here is a selection of our most noteworthy advances in 2025:
1. SADE: a world-first in robotics
CEA-List and SADE developed TUBOCONTACT SD, an autonomous robot for refurbishing drinking water networks. The robot, which was unveiled at the Pollutec trade show in October, inspects and repairs cast-iron pipes. By eliminating the need to dig trenches, the minimally-invasive robot makes jobs fast, cost-effective, and low-nuisance.
2. AMS software for computer-based interlocking (CBI) control stations for tomorrow’s railway signaling systems approved
CEA-List has been working with Compagnie des Signaux since 2021 on the AMS software suite for the specification and formal validation of CBI control stations. In 2025, AMS and its code generation module were approved for CBI control stations by Compagnie des Signaux and French rail infrastructure operator SNCF Réseau.
3. TDK’s spintronic memories, a key memory technology for AI systems
TDK and CEA-List renewed their partnership on spin memristors. They will now explore new neuromorphic computing architectures based on this technology, which could enable tomorrow’s AI systems to learn and adapt more efficiently with just a hundredth of the power consumption of other components.
4. MBDA Innovation Awards: first place
The CEA has been working with MBDA on embedded AI since 2020. The partners came in first in the 2025 MBDA Innovation Awards in recognition of their joint research.
These successful partnerships are a testament to the positive impact research can have on industry in today’s rapidly-changing environment. CEA-List, through sustained innovation and the creation of synergies between academic research and industrial R&D, is helping shape tomorrow’s industrial ecosystem.