2023 Innovation Showcase Participants

* denotes 2023 Innovation Award Winner

• Showcase Participants with Industry Area: Space, Defense, Mobility and Maturity: Proven Manufacturability

• EPA P. Hurd Awardee 2021 Sohi Patel

  The Woodlands, TX

  www.gravelrobotics.com

  Programmable Matter

  Programmable matter is an intelligent "omni-material" that changes its properties on command. A microrobotic swarm was developed with high-strength connection and data-efficient communication capabilities. Applications include manipulation of vehicle bodies, self-tuning radio antennas, centralized automation, and the coveted universal tool: a hammer that turns into a wrench and so on.

• Galaxy Unmanned Systems LLC

  Arlington, TX

  galaxyuas.com/

  Electric - VTOL Hybrid LTA (Lighter Than AIr) Unmanned AIrships

  Electric unmanned airships for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)

• Hong Kong Productivity Council

  Kowloon, Hong Kong

  www.hkpc.org

  IoT enabled Remote-Controlled Concrete Skip

  New technologies have been applied to enable the use of radio frequency to control concrete skip discharging gates. The system includes input ports, allowing for additional IoT devices to be integrated for safe and improved control of the concrete discharge process.

• ZiprPrint Ltd

  Edmonton, AB

  www.ziprprint.com/

  Shape and stiffness tunable composites for adaptive structures

  We build complex composites out of thin film springs, and reversibly “turn off” the cuts to create stiffness and shape tunable materials for adaptive structures, camouflage and thermal management purposes.