Announcing Our 2024 Finalists
Congratulations to the seven finalists who will be competing for the Grand Prize during a live presentation round in November:
AstroAnt: A Miniature Symbiotic Robotic Serving on the Outside Surfaces of Spacecraft, Rovers, and Landers for Inspection and Diagnostic Tasks
Cosmetic Silica Upcycled from Rice Husk as Natural Alternative to Microplastic Powders
Laser-Generated Anti-Icing and Anti-Fogging Transparent Materials
Multi-Modal Traffic Detection System
NETrolyze: A Novel Immunotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
RHOBARR Barrier Dispersions Platform
Thin-Film Thermoelectric Cooling Device
Watch this space for more announcements, including the Top 100 entries and Top Ten most popular.
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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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Time and cost saving dentures design and manufacturing cloud system. As a part of treatment, patient's jaw impression is being digitalized and uploaded to DDS cloud, where it is encrypted and could be used in DDS cloud CAD for denture design. After modeling, being shown to patient and approved,
Taking vision as an example, but that can also be applied to any other data gathering devices, the main problem lies in trying to deal with variability and complexity of inputs. The system states are way beyond any a priori memorization and classification,
Stroke is one of the leading causes of long term impairment. On average, every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke.
The Aerospace Integrated Bearing is a design that can only be fabricated by additive manufacturing and which exploits most of the benefits of this technology.
The 3Dvarius is an electric violin created by 3D printing technology and based on the model of a real Stradivarius violin. Printed as a single piece, the 3Dvarius violin departs from traditional musical instrument production technology.
Combining the precision and power of 3D-printing with ancient violin-making skills,
In every automobile, the function of the headlight is to illuminate the road ahead from a safe distance. At the same time, it should cause minimum discomfort for drivers coming from the opposite side. In order to achieve this,
Every day, many of us notice special yellow tactile paving on roads here and there, special roads for people with eyesight disabilities, for the purpose of easier navigation. For years, there have been some attempts to somehow create a better navigational system. All the ideas I’
Dehydration is easily missed in hospitals and is often the underlining factor of a lot of issues in patient care.
This project explores the hydration market and the current issues surrounding hydration in hospitals. Resulting in a product that responds to my research, user testing and insight.
In day to day life people on Earth produce tons of waste. This study is all about converting this waste into some useful things. In this study plastic waste must be segregated by people and a separate dustbin is required for same.
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