Trained as a bodybuilder, he notably worked in Marche at the Allart garage. It was then that his passion for sculpture was born. “A friend then asked me to make her a composition in corten steel. The virus arrived and never left me.”
Chrome and Corten steel are the metals he shapes, at least initially, before now focusing on stainless steel: “A material that is a little more difficult to work with, durable and recyclable, which can be polished and to which we can give mirror effects. I usually say that the welder is my pencil, while the grinder is my eraser “ .Embise does not hesitate to add color to his works: “By means of various lacquers or colored glass for example, a bit like in stained glass windows, in particular to highlight the wings of an insect for example”.
Why animals: “I love animals, especially those that we don’t necessarily pay attention to and thus give them back their rightful place: insects, farm animals or our forests. I don’t see myself sculpting a lion or a tiger. He It is not necessarily necessary to release power to be interesting”.
Sharing his life between his native Ardennes and the Alpes de Haute-Provence, Embise had the opportunity to see the country thanks to his metal animals. He will also be, a week before the Godefroid ceremony, at the National Salon of Animal Artists in Bry-sur-Marne to receive the Sandoz Prize. He also exhibits permanently at the Space Art Gallery in Redu and occasionally in those of Alfredo Longo in Mons and Dany Liehrmann in Liège.
Godefroid Innovation: MachineSight (Innovation)
With a team of top-notch experts, MachineSight designs and manufactures 4.0 robots for cutting-edge industry in Marloie.
MachineSight, an SME founded in 2018 and based in Marloie (Marche-en-Famenne), is a specialized integrator of industrial electromechanics. The small company which employs around twenty people (a multidisciplinary team of experts in engineering, robotics and IT) uses artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things-IoT, data science & analytics to develop and install robots capable of manipulating objects, of controlling the quality of a part produced by cutting-edge industry: aerospace, pharmacy, steel, electronics. “Our robots check and guarantee the quality of our customers’ products. This requires a capacity for analysis and rapid decision-making in the face of often complex situations. The robots we design are not intended to replace humans but rather to help him, to assist him in carrying out repetitive and difficult tasks.explains Pascal Suls, one of the three founders of Machine Sight, with Marc Lengelé and Étienne Maréchal. MachineSight is currently collaborating with the Safran group, one of the largest manufacturers of aircraft engines: “we provide a robotic arm which manipulates the parts in front of specific cameras and lighting in order to check their final quality. It is the Occulus software, entirely developed within our workshops, which controls the operations. Powerful algorithms, using the techniques the most advanced in artificial intelligence, make it possible to detect defects, dents and scratches with a degree of precision that can reach 1/10th of a millimeter.explains Marc Lengelé. With machine learning and data analytics and computer vision technologies, each robot incredibly improves the automation of customer tasks. But beyond the economic benefits, MachineSight also emphasizes a crucial issue: the environmental impact. We must indeed do more with fewer resources. The Marloie SME generates 60% of its turnover in Wallonia.
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