VivaTech: Mental health innovations take centre stage at Europe's largest tech fair

Published on 11/06/2025 - 22:39 GMT+2

VivaTech opened its doors this Wednesday successful Paris, marking nan commencement of Europe’s astir important tech and startup yearly event.

With much than 165,000 expected visitors and astir 14,000 startups from complete 50 countries, nan ninth version of nan arena is group to beryllium nan biggest yet.

Just for illustration past year, artificial intelligence (AI) is nan prima of nan show. But this time, immoderate of nan astir attention-grabbing innovations are those applying AI and tech to wellness attraction and intelligence well-being.

“Artificial intelligence is moving from subject fabrication to real-life application. And visitors will observe pinch nan much than 13,000 start-ups what it is going to mean for business, for our mundane lives and our democracies," said François Bitouzet, Director General of VivaTech.

There is simply a geopolitical discourse that is unthinkable successful which tech and AI play a role, and we will analyse this during nan adjacent 4 days," he told Euronews.

In a twelvemonth marked by expanding geopolitical tensions and debates astir technological sovereignty, Europe is looking to asseverate itself arsenic a cardinal subordinate successful AI innovation.

But nan tech adjacent besides serves arsenic a level to research really this exertion tin thief reside profoundly quality challenges.

Tracking facial expressions to show depression

One specified illustration is Emobot, a French startup processing an AI-powered instrumentality that helps show temper disorders done a patient’s facial expressions and voice.

“It’s an app that is installed connected nan telephone and connected nan computer. We analyse facial expressions each 2nd while nan diligent uses their telephone passim nan day," explained Antony Perzo, co-founder and CTO of Emobot.

"We besides analyse their voice. Then, we aggregate this information to show for symptoms of depression. All this data, we put it together and past make a dashboard for nan expert that allows them to travel nan improvement of nan temper upset symptoms," he told Euronews.

All this accusation is mixed to make a dashboard for doctors, allowing them to way nan improvement of symptoms remotely.

“Psychiatry is 1 of nan fewer disciplines wherever we can’t visualise disorders. In different areas of medicine, we person MRIs aliases imaging tools. We wanted to create nan first instrumentality tin of search and visualising temper symptoms complete time. Think of it arsenic a benignant of thermometer for intelligence health”, he said.

Perfume meets neuroscience

Another intelligence wellness startup, AMOI, blends neuroscience pinch perfume to displacement a person's temper successful conscionable minutes.

Whether you're looking for focus, calm, power aliases joy, AMOI claims its neuro-fragrances tin present results wrong 5 minutes.

With much than 1 successful 4 group reporting emotion mentally unwell, AMOI's laminitis Pascale Fontaine, says her task is astir offering accessible and enjoyable devices for affectional well-being.

VivaTech runs until 14 June astatine nan Porte de Versailles accumulation centre successful Paris.