Designing and developing micro robots is the stuff of sci-fi, Joana Cartocci, Founder and COO of Robeauté told me, but it is exactly what the startup is doing as part of a mission to give neurosurgeons the tools they need to investigate, treat, and monitor brain diseases.

Designing a photonic chip on your CTO’s dining room table may not be a typical backstory for most startups, but for Siloton, co-founded by Alasdair Price in 2020, it was a core component for a business that began during the COVID pandemic.

Robotics startup BOW’s name may seem quite evocative – ‘Bettering Our World’ – but it speaks to a broader mission of recognising existing issues within the robotics industry and seeking to address these issues through its robotic-agnostic software development kit (SDK).

Growing data usage on mobile networks has led to a growing number of RF frequency bands, in turn creating more components and greater in size. In summary, the more frequency bands there are, the more fixed frequency filters that are required in mobile radio front ends.

At CES this year Vista Innotech was the recipient of the Innovation Award 2025 in the imaging category for its three-axis micro gimbal stabiliser (MSG), a landmark moment for the company that not only validated its MSG technology, but also reflected the hard work and efforts of a relatively small team working out of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks.

A pivotal experience in Simon Bailey’s twenties while commuting across London on a route besieged by poor public transport links led him to think about the “crazy system we’ve got,” he confessed, with regard to cars being oversized for single-occupancy, a path that set him on the journey to founding WeatherVelo, a mobilitytech startup that is developing a prototype vehicle that presents a midway point between a car and a bicycle.

The issue of battery waste is pervasive: according to figures shared by Statista, between 2011 – 2021 246,000 metric tonnes of portable batteries and accumulators were sold in the EU, of which 48% were collected for recycling.

You may be familiar with this scenario: faced with rising housing costs, you downsize and move into a smaller house. The problem being, you now have less storage space and you can’t surrender the essentials, like having a kitchen and a bathroom.

For those navigating an increasingly digital world, it can be nice to go back to the basics of putting pen to paper, discarding your tablet for the therapeutic experience of writing on a pad, or in a notebook. However, carrying a notebook wherever you go is not always convenient, as you may have a lot of notes to juggle, and having an in-between point between digital technology and physical paper provides a perfect medium.

Upon first glance, Altery might look unassuming: as a company operating in the fintech sector, it offers secure cross-border payments and multi-currency wallets for its customers around the world. But scratch the surface, and you’ll find a company that is looking to disrupt fintech and traditional banking more generally, as I learned from speaking to Bisi Giwa, Managing Director of Altery.

I’m guilty of a good credit score in theory but in practice I have not owned or used a credit card that should be demonstrable of your individual ability to pay things back (as an oversimplified explanation).

Emilė Radytė, CEO and Co-Founder of Samphire Neuroscience, makes no secret of her interest in trying to explain behaviours through human brain action. “I have always loved the overlap of how the human brain interacts with society and the way we function,” Radytė explained.