2023-2024
Identifying the market need for translating Braille to print
Inventor : Gregory Hargraves, Paige Demonstration : Video Paige was founded by five engineers from Imperial College London, whose goals are to make braille affordable for everyone, and to enable communication and collaboration with sighted peers, parents and teachers. In the UK, 64% of children who are blind or partially-sighted are educated in mainstream schools.…
Using AI to give industrial robots a sense of feeling
Inventors : Dr. Leo Jiang, Dr. Brian Sheil & Dr. Geyang Song, Construction Engineering & JS2 Innovation The inventors have developed AI-powered fibre optic sensors to measure forces in a wide variety of contexts. Due to the flexibility and small size of fibre optics, this technique opens up applications outside of the scope of traditional force…
Sharing agricultural expertise to address the impact of climate change
Inventors: Dr. Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Mr. Hemelkart Ataya, CRASSH, Sociology and Cambridge Sustainability Initiative One of the observable impacts of climate change is the effect on which agricultural crops and products can be produced in different regions. In some cases this opens up the opportunity for farmers to grow new types of crops for their…
Identifying senescent cells in vivo
Inventor: Dr. Ljiljana Fruk, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology The inventors have developed a material made of organic dyes which moves selectively in the body to areas of aged (senescent) cells, allowing in vivo imaging of the location and number of these cells. The material is formulated as a nanocapsule which can fluoresce but also has…
Emily Harris, PhD student
I participated in the Development i-Teams programme in Easter 2024. I’m confident that these 6-weeks will be the most defining of my PhD experience. This opportunity not only built my confidence in the workplace, but steered me on a new exciting career path that I didn’t even know existed. The i-Teams experience has led me…
Dr Lavanya Dalasari, MBA student
Reflecting on an incredible journey with the Medical i-Teams at the University of Cambridge has been nothing short of amazing. From the very first day, being part of this team felt like joining a dynamic startup, all of us united by a common goal to bring real medical innovations closer to market.Our project focused on…