Winners and finalists

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.