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Winners and finalists

Congratulations to our 2020 winners and finalists.

Mod Logo 700

Visionary Award for Protecting Society & Saving Lives

Sponsored by MoD

  • JHubMed & Army Medical Services (1 Div) - Trial of Pando medical messaging to supported deployed healthcare
  • Durham University - Testing the Screener: Novel 3D Threat Image Projection for Next Generation Aviation Security
  • Winner - JHubMed, Defence Medical Academy, Microsoft and KBR - Mixed Reality Clinical Trainer (MRCT): simulating complex chemical poisoning symptoms in Military training
  • Enable reMote Integrated Surgery for Defence (ARTEMIS) with Proximie
  • University of Strathclyde - Creative Help Ltd, Nith Inshore Rescue, University of Strathclyde.
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Gchq 700

Outstanding Innovation in Communications & IT Award

Sponsored by GCHQ

  • Winner - Darwin College, University of Cambridge - Jade: an AI-enabled low-cost digital stethoscope
  • Darwin College, University of Cambridge - Loris: An AI-enabled Open-Source Scan-to-Twin System
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology – Techniques, Equipments and Platforms of Multiplexed Emergency Visual Communications for Rescue Actions in Disasters
  • Enable reMote Integrated Surgery for Defence (ARTEMIS) with Proximie
  • University of Cambridge - Artificial Intelligence to Serve Data-driven Materials Discovery.
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Small idea, Big impact: Global Challenge Award

  • AyeAI Consulting- AyeAM Autonomous Ambulance
  • Darwin College, University of Cambridge - Jade: an AI-enabled low-cost digital stethoscope
  • Oreoluwa Griffiths - Chewing Gum for Covid-19 testing
  • Winner - University of Oxford/ Kings College London/ Smith & Nephew - The OxVent, rapid design & manufacture low cost Ventilator for COVID - 19
  • VentilatorChallengeUK Consortium - Producing ventilators for the NHS
  • Versarien PLC - Graphene-based technology for large scale manufacture of antiviral (PPE) materials and surfaces.
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Outstanding Innovation in Digital Health and Social Care Award

  • Aidoc Medical - AI algorithm that assists radiologists in identifying medical abnormalities
  • 4Blind - 4Blind for limitless abilities
  • Shadow Robot Company - The Tactile Telerobot: the world's first smart haptic telerobot hand for hands-on healthcare
  • University of Queensland - Non-invasive Skin Cancer Detection System
  • Winner - University of Portsmouth and Chailey Heritage Foundation - Embedded intelligent real-time digital systems to enhance the use of powered-wheelchairs.
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National Grid 700

Outstanding Innovation in Future Power & Energy Award

Sponsored by National Grid

  • Winner - Freedom and NG Bailey company for POC-MAST – technology created to offer a fast, safe, reliable and cost-effective means of connecting new projects to the grid network, and its application by UK Power Networks in a solar farm project
  • Open Energi - Open Energi’s optimisation of an energy storage asset co-located with renewable generation and demand
  • Best.Energy - Eniscope: the world's most complete Energy Management System
  • PVStop International Pty Ltd - PV Stop - Making Solar Energy Safe
  • UK Power Networks - UK Power Networks’ innovation project Powerful-CB is opening the door to a new wave of low carbon energy in London.
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Frazer Nash 700

Excellence in Creating a Smarter World Award

Sponsored by Frazer-Nash

  • Archimedes Research Limited - The Em1 Microscope: Portable, Powerful, Digital-Enabled Microscopy
  • Magway - Magway pipes delivering the future today
  • MTR Corporation Limited - Smart Junction: All-in-one Solution for Enhancing Light Rail Transit Safety
  • Winner - University of Portsmouth and Chailey Heritage Foundation - Smart technology to enhance the use of powered-wheelchairs using intelligent systems
  • Vertical Aerospace Limited - Vertical Aerospace’s air taxi, enabling electric flight for everyone.
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Outstanding Innovation in Manufacturing 4.0 Award

  • Aidrivers - AI enabled Autonomous Retrofitting Solution for industrial mobility automation
  • Mid UK Recycling - Volumetric Sensor
  • TG0 - Touch, gesture, pressure and deformation sensing smart materials
  • Winner - 3D Microfluidics LLC - Hybrid Laser Printing.

 
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Excellence in R&D Award

  • Archimedes Research Limited - The Em1 Microscope: Portable, Powerful, Digital-Enabled Microscopy
  • Bar-Ilan University - Making spectacles redundant: A home-use treatment including light-based device and special eye drops
  • Boston University - Ultra-open, metamaterial-enabled noise silencing
  • Durham University - Testing the Screener: Novel 3D Threat Image Projection for Next Generation Aviation Security
  • Winner - Shadow Robot - The Tactile Telerobot - the world's first smart haptic telerobot hand
  • XAG® - R150 Unmanned Ground Vehicle: The World’s First Mass-produced Farm Robot.
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Mathworks 700

Excellence in Intelligent Systems Award

Sponsored by MathWorks

  • MTR Corporation Limited - Smart Junction – All-in-one Solution for Enhancing Light Rail Transit Safety
  • Winner - Shadow Robot - The Tactile Telerobot - the world's first smart haptic telerobot hand
  • University of Cambridge - Artificial Intelligence to Serve Data-driven Materials Discovery.
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Excellence in Cyber Security Award

  • Winner - BT - Mobius - Simulation of Malware for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
  • Electronics of the Future, Inc - Terahertz Cyber Security Testing using Artificial Intelligence
  • Northumbria University - Flow-based Botnet Detection System through Optimised Bio-inspired Machine Learning
  • Sternum - Securing IoT Devices from Within
  • Tricerion Limited - Frictionless Secure Customer Authentication with Neurographic Passwords.
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Excellence in Model-Based Engineering Award

  • BAE Systems Maritime - Re-designing a test component; the ice pigging of a submarine
  • BT - Mobius - Simulation of Malware for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
  • Emblation FEA - Advanced FEA Computational Modelling: Identifying the Interaction between Microwave Energy and the Human Anatomy
  • Nanyang Technological University - The emergence of AI as an alternative to the traditional modelling of wind farms
  • Winner - Ocado Technology - DASH Simulations - Where Physical and Digital Worlds Collide: From Simulated Robot Control System To True Digital Twin.
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Visionary Award for Sustainable Planet Award

  • Hogen Systems Ltd - Water From Air: Hogen Atmospheric Water Generation
  • National University of Singapore/Ecoline Solar - Energy-efficient Solar-thermal Air Conditioners that Harness Heat
  • Magway - Magway pipes delivering the future today
  • Vertical Aerospace Limited - Vertical Aerospace’s air taxi, enabling electric flight for everyone
  • Winner - Williams Advanced Engineering/Aerofoil Energy - F1 inspired technology helping to reduce CO2 emissions in UK supermarkets.
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Arrow 700

Future Unicorn Award

Sponsored by Arrow

  • Bar-Ilan University - Making spectacles redundant: A home-use treatment including light-based device and special eye drops
  • FeTu Limited - The Positive Displacement Turbine will transcend how we generate, use and recover energy across all platforms
  • Winner - Magway - Magway pipes delivering the future today
  • Novosound - Pushing the Limits of Ultrasound Imaging & Measurement
  • Vertical Aerospace Limited - Vertical Aerospace’s air taxi, enabling electric flight for everyone.
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Best Diversity and Inclusion Impact Award

  • BT - BT’s TechWomen programme -giving women the tools they need to compete in a traditionally male-dominated industry
  • Emerson - Innovations Portal – your idea matters
  • Winner - Oldalone UK - Click & Connect 4 All.
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