Did you know that according to the latest report from the International Federation of Robotics, since 2021 major developments in robotics have been made mostly in countries outside Africa? The overall turnover for Africa in the field of robotics is less than 2% of that of the global figure. Also, there is an increased lack of information technologies, datasets and AI adapted to the African market. This is what Umbaji was born for.

Umbaji is a startup in the field of AI in robotics, which aims to democratize access to highly adequate resources in AI and robotics in African markets.

A year ago we prototyped the first speech recognition system for Ewe which improved the properties of what was already available online, meaning we were the first company to tackle the problem of speech recognition for West African languages.

Today, Umbaji stands out for innovation and originality especially in the fact that we aim to build an online platform for language learning and with unique speech recognition and synthesis, available in opensource, mobile-friendly for African markets...

In umbaji, we are also one of the first companies on the African market to provide robots at affordable prices, in collaboration with international brand companies. Our group of experts allows us to make mid-range and high-end robots accessible (such as Niryo robots, NAO, etc.) for SMEs, for education and research. Indeed, for the French robotics brand, Niryo, there is currently no distributor on the West African market, umbaji with its expertise on its robots would position itself as the market leader.