The prin­ci­ples of sus­tain­abil­i­ty, ‘pre­dic­tiv­i­ty’ and sobri­ety guide many of the research projects car­ried out in UTC’s Rober­val lab­o­ra­to­ry. For exam­ple, work on ‘Indus­try 5.0’ aims at opti­mis­ing plant pro­duc­tion by tak­ing envi­ron­men­tal indi­ca­tors into account. Oth­ers focus on inno­v­a­tive mate­ri­als for the auto­mo­tive indus­try, which need to be both mechan­i­cal­ly pre­cise and light­weight in order to reduce over­all vehi­cle weight. Oth­ers again con­cern the devel­op­ment of tools and numer­i­cal mod­els ded­i­cat­ed, inter alia, to the study of the behav­iour of struc­tures and mate­ri­als, but also of flu­ids, and final­ly to opti­mi­sa­tion. In oth­er words, the opti­mi­sa­tion of sim­u­la­tion as such, mak­ing it more fru­gal by reduc­ing cal­cu­la­tion times, for exam­ple, but also by opti­mis­ing the mechan­i­cal per­for­mance of a giv­en mate­r­i­al or struc­ture and being able to quan­ti­fy its robust­ness. Final­ly, work on inno­v­a­tive bat­ter­ies, with mod­els that can diag­nose a battery’s state of charge or pre­dict its expect­ed lifes­pan, for example.