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June 17, 2026

Is this Europe’s most audacious founder?

Bertrand Duplat is building tiny robots for the brain, an idea that sounds not only difficult but crazy. Over a long Paris lunch, he talks comic books, punk music and falling in love

Éanna Kelly

7 min read

You know that feeling when you've agreed to go to a party, but as the date approaches you'd do almost anything to wriggle out of it? Well, maybe you should power through and go anyway.

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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