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Michel Valstar

@MichelValstar

Founder, Chief Evangelist and Scientific Officer (CESO) of Blueskeye. Honorary Prof in computer science. 22+ years of experience in face and voice analysis.

 Nottingham, England
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Joined March 2009
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Check out my latest article: The Lindsay Clancy case poses difficult questions about how we deal with postpartum psychosis linkedin.com/pulse/lindsay-c… via @LinkedIn
The Lindsay Clancy case poses difficult questions about how we deal with postpartum psychosis

The Lindsay Clancy case poses difficult questions about how we deal with postpartum psychosis

The case of Lindsay Clancy is a harrowing one. A labour-and-delivery nurse from Massachusetts, she killed her three young children in January 2023.

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Check out my latest article: Vision of a future with personal sovereign robot assistants linkedin.com/pulse/vision-fu… via @LinkedIn

Vision of a future with personal sovereign robot assistants

Keen technology observers will have noticed a major technology trend that is set to drastically change our lives: personal robots are coming. You can tell just by looking at the sheer number of...

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Check out my latest article: Make no mistake: measuring expressive behaviour is harder than you think! linkedin.com/pulse/make-mist… via @LinkedIn
Make no mistake: measuring expressive behaviour is harder than you think!

Make no mistake: measuring expressive behaviour is harder than you think!

Last week I received two messages from would-be customers. They made me smile, because taken together, they painted a picture that I was only too familiar with.

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Check out my latest article: Using the B-Healthy Platform to objectively and remotely measure disease-specific biomarkers linkedin.com/pulse/using-b-h… via @LinkedIn
Using the B-Healthy Platform to objectively and remotely measure disease-specific biomarkers

Using the B-Healthy Platform to objectively and remotely measure disease-specific biomarkers

There are hundreds of millions of people world-wide who are not getting the medical treatment they deserve, due to outdated ways of diagnosing and monitoring them. For a whole range of medical...

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Check out my latest article: Making a thousand social robotics startups possible - the need for a software ecosystem linkedin.com/pulse/making-th… via @LinkedIn
Making a thousand social robotics startups possible - the need for a software ecosystem

Making a thousand social robotics startups possible - the need for a software ecosystem

In the last six weeks, I’ve seen many dozens of robot startups creating robots that one way or another will interact with humans. First at the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley and surroundings, where...

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Check out my latest article: Social Robots - Rise of the Ecosystem linkedin.com/pulse/social-ro… via @LinkedIn
Social Robots - Rise of the Ecosystem

Social Robots - Rise of the Ecosystem

Last week BLUESKEYE AI had the honour to present to members of Bosch’s G7 executive board as part of the Open Bosch Awards. BLUESKEYE AI was one of the 7 top startup collaborators of Bosch, out of a...

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Check out my latest article: How should the NHS go about procuring AI tools? linkedin.com/pulse/how-shoul… via @LinkedIn
How should the NHS go about procuring AI tools?

How should the NHS go about procuring AI tools?

This Wednesday 5 November 2025, I had the honour to sit on the Healthtechx panel discussing how the NHS should adopt AI, alongside such luminaries as Dame Barbara Hakin, the former Deputy Chief...

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Check out my latest article: Automotives, here's how you use health features in your vehicles! linkedin.com/pulse/automotiv… via @LinkedIn
Automotives, here's how you use health features in your vehicles!

Automotives, here's how you use health features in your vehicles!

In my recent travels, from InCabin Barcelona to customer meetings in Japan, I’ve been hearing the same refrain over and over. The automotive industry is saying: “we want health measurement in our...

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Check out my latest article: Sub-threshold depression recognition from both the face and the voice linkedin.com/pulse/sub-thres… via @LinkedIn
Sub-threshold depression recognition from both the face and the voice

Sub-threshold depression recognition from both the face and the voice

New research published in Springer Nature https://www.nature.

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Check out my latest article: The End of the Mobile Phone Monopoly linkedin.com/pulse/end-mobil… via @LinkedIn
The End of the Mobile Phone Monopoly

The End of the Mobile Phone Monopoly

There was a time when we accessed the Internet through a wide variety of software and protocols. Gopher, Finger, Ftp, Telnet, browsers like Mosaic and Netscape.

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Check out my latest article: Social robots provide mental health support linkedin.com/pulse/social-ro… via @LinkedIn
Social robots provide mental health support

Social robots provide mental health support

Can social robots reduce carers' stress and improve their wellbeing? A recent study by researchers from Cambridge University, ETH Zürich and others provides some very convincing proof that it can!...

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Check out my latest article: How to make a robot social linkedin.com/pulse/how-make-… via @LinkedIn
How to make a robot social

How to make a robot social

At BLUESKEYE AI we create the world’s best face and voice analysis technology for you to use in your robots. It lets your robot read a user’s social, emotional, and medically relevant behaviour.

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When a cough or a sneeze is more than a social signal: Achoo! Bless you! linkedin.com/pulse/achoo-ble… via @LinkedIn
Achoo! Bless you!

Achoo! Bless you!

Coughing and sneezing occurs a lot. It is so pervasive and common that you probably don’t take much notice, but it is actually a much stronger indicator of health than you might think.

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🚀We've got some really cool news to share: BLUESKEYE AI has been selected for Google for Startups - AI in Health The Google For Startups program is fantastic for BLUESKEYE AI as we continue to strengthen our position in the market. Read more: goo.gle/42aPJ9a
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Unbelievable @elonmusk has done it again. Booster stage of the starship caught by the massive 'chopstick' arms. Will they re-use this booster for a second flight?
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Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!
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Check out my latest article: Social Robots need to see you expressing yourself! linkedin.com/pulse/social-ro… via @LinkedIn
Social Robots need to see you expressing yourself!

Social Robots need to see you expressing yourself!

Last week I attended the first edition of HLTH Europe 2024 held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I grew up so close to the city so I took the opportunity to reconnect with an old friend for lunch.

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Almost done with some research on using affective computing for mental health? You might still be able to present it at ACII 2024 in Glasgow. The deadline for the  Int'l Wshop on Multimodal Social Agents & Robots for Mental Health extended to 5 July. See blueskeye.com/acii-workshop
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Check out my latest article: FDA pushes for harder evidence in mental health drug trials: Here's what we think linkedin.com/pulse/fda-pushe… via @LinkedIn
FDA pushes for harder evidence in mental health drug trials: Here's what we think

FDA pushes for harder evidence in mental health drug trials: Here's what we think

Two weeks ago, a scientific advisory committee to the FDA voted 9 to 2 against the use of MDMA (ecstasy) as an effective treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They also recommended against...

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Over 75 years ago Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/2H0ZxvR Image v/@hackaday
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