While the innovation itself is as yet advancing, likewise educational necessities and difficulties too are evolving over the years. Nowadays, parents are busier than ever and don’t have the time to put their full attention on children’s development. Their main concern is to keep kids entertained and at the same time, enhance their growth. Therefore, they need a solution that can help them in children’s development. The French startup Mainbot came into the existence with an objective to create and develop meaningful domestic robots, first for children, and later for the whole family. Since its inception in 2017, the company believes in a future where robot companions work alongside humans, and augment their potential as human beings.
Winky: A Learning Companion for Children
Mainbot is preparing children aged 5 to 12 for tomorrow’s world by teaching them robotics and programming. It is creating robots for life, today for children and later on for the entire family. The company established a strong presence by performing the best French crowdfunding campaign on Ulule. This forced all the French medias to cover its story making people aware of it. The robotics company has developed Winky, a modular and educational robot companion for children. This robot teaches children the principles of coding and robotics in a fun way.
Mainbot’s Winky is the first educational robot that boosts cognitive performance in children. The educational robot combines teaching and entertainment and increases the level of concentration and the duration of learning sessions for children. For children, it is a genuine learning companion as it directly interacts with them as well as encourages and helps them correct their own mistakes in real-time. Its modular supports different accessories for different needs.
Core values of Mainbot
Core values form the foundations on which a business is built. To be upheld, they must be implemented across the entire business, recognized by employees, and referred to throughout the decision-making process. Mainbot’s core values reflect its dedication to enhancing employees’ development as well as paving the way towards success. These core values are: Customers and profit, Scope, Employees, and Organization.
A Serial Entrepreneur behind Mainbot’s Success and Growth
The Founder and CEO of Mainbot, Boris Kesler is extremely passionate about robotics and founded & managed several startups. He studied at the IE Business School in Madrid. Hardware entrepreneur at heart, he began his first robotics project at 15 with a robotic blog about ethical dilemmas and innovation. Later, the dynamic leader developed a robot for visually impaired people for the Google Science Fair after he created and managed an association of over 20 people to develop several innovative robots, which amongst many achievements deeply interested Bruno Maisonnier (Aldebaran Robotics founder, exit for 100M€ in 2013 to Softbank Telecom).
Boris believed in his capabilities and worked in the robotics French news portal “Planète Robots” and in parallel, as a Chess Teacher in Paris. Moreover, he founded two tech startups about wearables “Lepiq”, the first high-end smartwatch and then “MainTool”, the first smart strap for every watch. After this, the competent leader established MainBot.
Being the Founder of the leading company, Boris ensures the all the employees are working in accordance with the company’s vision. He conducts weekly meetings and monthly teambuilding sessions for them to have good communication with their manager. He always keeps an open-door policy to ensure that his team can talk to him anytime.
Encouraging Employees’ Ideas
The CEO Boris knows that its employees are one of the important assets that are contributing in the growth of Mainbot. Therefore, he ensures that the company stays as stable as possible and every month for 2 hours everyone interacts about anything altogether. By doing this, they could have new ideas or sharing problems resulting in sharing of thoughts between them. In this way, workforces have the opportunity to bring their idea into existence or solve their issues.
Celebrating in a Unique Style
Every organization recognizes and celebrates the milestones of its employees in its own way. For Mainbot, it offers paid vacation for employees as well as improves the office with nice decoration related to its brand. The company also provides T-Shirt, goodies or additional stuff like linked to its brand or product so that its workers become proud of the product they have developed. Hence, employees’ morale and spirit are boosted by Mainbot.
Searching For Best of the Best Candidates
Today, the business landscape is crowded with many companies that are offering different products or services. Individuals around the world have lots of options to choose from. Therefore, it is necessary for companies to differentiate themselves from others. To reinforce its presence, Mainbot has an outstanding growth rate since its inception. The company is forming a global imprint in the marketplace with its very fun and cute product Winky. Thus, it employs only the best of the best candidates so that they can contribute in preparing children for today’s and tomorrow’s world.
