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The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) stands as one of the world's most prolific and multidisciplinary research organizations, with a robotics and AI portfolio that spans foundational theory, cutting-edge engineering, and transformative real-world applications. As France's primary public research institution, CNRS brings together hundreds of laboratories and thousands of researchers whose collective output has shaped modern robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence at a global scale. CNRS researchers have made landmark contributions to swarm intelligence, with their seminal 1999 work accumulating over 6,400 citations and establishing the conceptual framework that continues to guide multi-agent and bio-inspired systems research worldwide. Their influence extends across mobile robotics — from exponential stabilization of nonholonomic systems and motion planning for car-like robots in the early 1990s, to human-aware navigation and hierarchical quadratic programming for humanoid motion generation in more recent years. The RABBIT bipedal robot project exemplifies CNRS's strength in experimental validation of advanced control theory, while work on evolutionary robotics and adaptive systems — including the celebrated "Robots that can adapt like animals" paper — demonstrates a commitment to resilient, intelligence-driven machines. CNRS laboratories have also advanced fault-tolerant control, attitude estimation for low-cost inertial sensors, and autonomous system architectures, contributing high-impact work across both theoretical and applied dimensions. Their engagement with smart homes, autism intervention technologies, and Mars exploration instruments reflects an institution unafraid to cross disciplinary boundaries. With an extraordinary citation record and a tradition of open, collaborative science, CNRS offers prospective students and partners an unparalleled environment for ambitious, high-impact research at the frontier of robotics and intelligent systems.