Significant Milestones


2011: Winner of the iNets South West Biomedical "Innovation Award 2011".

2009: The company is a partner in a Technology Strategy Board consortium.

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2008: The company received a "MacRobert Award Contributor" in recognition of the contribution their control system made to the winning of The 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for the most innovative UK product of 2008.

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2007: In February the company was successful in attracting world-wide licence agreements with manufacturer/distributor for its prosthetic hand control systems and the product was launched into the marketplace in the August.

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2005: Company receives financial support for production prototype manufacture of the ACR prosthetic hand controller.

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2004: Company receives Department of Trade & Industry R&D Award for a Portable Early Diagnostic System for Predicting an Imminent Heart Attack.

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2003: Company attracts financial support from the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (NESTA).

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2001: Visit to the company by Lord Sainsbury, Minister for Science and Innovation.

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2001: Company receives Department of Trade & Industry "SMART Micro-Project" Award for development of a demonstrator multi-functional prosthetic hand.

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2000: Visit to the company by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. PM witnessed a Patient Trial of the technology and reported later in the day to the media "Today in one of the science parks here in Plymouth I saw technology that amazed me". (Western Morning News, Friday February 4, 2000)

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1998: Company receives Department of Trade & Industry 'SMART'Award for development of real-time pattern recognition software for a prosthetic hand.

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1998: Company located at Tamar Science Park, Plymouth, Devon, UK.

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