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The MacRobert Award is regarded as the leading prize recognising UK innovation in engineering.^[1] It was established in 1969 by the MacRobert Trusts and is now presented by the Royal Academy of Engineering, supported by the Worshipful Company of Engineers and industry sponsors. The winner receives a gold medal and a cash sum of £50,000.

History

The award is named in honour of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert (1884 - 1954).^[2]

Winners

1969 - Freeman Fox & Partners - for the superstructure of the Severn Bridge and Rolls-Royce - for the Pegasus Engine (Joint Winners)
1970 - British Petroleum - for new surveying techniques
1971 - The Gas Council - for innovative manufacturing processes
1972 - EMI Limited - for advances in diagnosing Brain disease using X-rays
1973 - Dunlop - for the Denovo tyre
1974 - ICI Limited (Agricultural division)
1975 - Westland Helicopters and British Railways Board (Joint Winners)
1976 - No award.
1977 - Royal Signals Research Establishment and Malvern Instruments
1978 - Pilkington Brothers Limited
1979 - Post Office Telecommunications
1980 - Johnson Matthey Group
1981 - Lucas CAV Limited
1982 - Kaldair Limited
1983 - Ruston Gas Turbines
1984 - Netlon Limited
1985 - The National Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Rolls-Royce (Joint Winners)
1986 - Oxford Instruments Group
1987 - Renishaw plc
1988 - Quantel Limited
1989 - British Gas
1990 - The Science and Engineering Research Council
1991 - Rover Group and Defence Research Agency and GEC Sensors (Joint Winners)
1992 - BP International
1993 - ICI Klea
1994 - Soil Machine Dynamics
1995 - British Gas plc and Gill Electronic R&D
1996 - Rolls-Royce plc - for the Trent aero-engine
1997 - Whipp & Bourne (A division of FKI plc)
1998 - Norton Healthcare Limited
1999 - Buro Happold - for the Millennium Dome design
2000 - Johnson Matthey
2001 - Sensaura
2002 - Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) − for light emitting polymers
2003 - Randox Laboratories
2004 - IBM − for the WebSphere MQ
2005 - CSR plc
2006 - Optos plc^[3]
2007 - Process Systems Enterprise
2008 - Touch Bionics for the I-LIMB bionic hand^[4]^[5]^[6]
2009 - Arup for the Beijing National Aquatics Center^[7]
2010 - Inmarsat for its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)^[8]
2011 - Microsoft Research Cambridge for the machine learning work on the human motion capture subsystem of Kinect^[9]
2012 - Jaguar Land Rover for design and innovation building Range Rover Evoque
2013 - RealVNC for the innovation of VNC Remote Access Software
2014 - Cobalt Light Systems for the innovation of Insight100 airport security liquid scanner
2015 - Artemis Intelligent Power for the innovation of Digital Displacement hydraulic transmission.^[1]^[10] The judging panel was chaired by Dame Sue Ion.^[11]
2016 - Blatchford for the world's most 'intelligent' prosthetic limb.^[12] The judging panel was chaired by Dame Sue Ion.^[13]
2017 - Raspberry Pi^[14] "for its inexpensive credit card-sized microcomputers, which are redefining how people engage with computing, inspiring students to learn coding and computer science and providing innovative control solutions for industry."^[15]

References

^ ^a ^b "'Massive leap' wins engineering award". BBC. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
^ MacRobert Trust
^ Seeing into the Future, Ingenia Magazine, March 2007
^ BBC NEWS, Bionic hand wins top tech prize
^ telegraph.co.uk, World's first commercial bionic hand
^ Palme d'Or, Ingenia Magazine, September 2008
^ "Top prize for Chinese water cube". BBC News. 2009-06-09. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
^ "Inmarsat grabs the MacRobert engineering prize". BBC News. 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
^ "Back to the future: MacRobert Award 2012 launches by looking back 40 years". Royal Academy of Engineering.
^ McArdle, Helen. "Edinburgh firm scoops £50,000 MacRobert prize for innovation shown to cut fuel consumption by up to 27 per cent". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
^ "Artemis Intelligent Power wins MacRobert Award". RAEng. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
^ Austin-Morgan, Tom. "World's most intelligent prosthetic limb wins MacRobert award". Retrieved 24 June 2016.
^ "World's most intelligent prosthetic limb wins UK's top innovation prize". Retrieved 24 June 2016.
^ Cellan-Jones, Rory. "Raspberry Pi scores UK's top engineering award". BBC. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
^ "MacRobert award". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

External links

MacRobert Award
MacRobert Award 2005 winner and finalists, Ingenia Magazine, June 2005
MacRobert Award 2006 winner and finalists, Ingenia Magazine, June 2006
MacRobert Award 2007 winner and finalists, Ingenia Magazine, June 2007
MacRobert Award 2008 winner and finalists, Ingenia Magazine, June 2008

[BBC-1] "'Massive leap' wins engineering award". BBC. Retrieved 17 July 2015.

[2] MacRobert Trust

[3] Seeing into the Future, Ingenia Magazine, March 2007

[4] BBC NEWS, Bionic hand wins top tech prize

[5] telegraph.co.uk, World's first commercial bionic hand

[6] Palme d'Or, Ingenia Magazine, September 2008

[7] "Top prize for Chinese water cube". BBC News. 2009-06-09. Retrieved 2009-06-09.

[8] "Inmarsat grabs the MacRobert engineering prize". BBC News. 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-06-08.

[9] "Back to the future: MacRobert Award 2012 launches by looking back 40 years". Royal Academy of Engineering.

[10] McArdle, Helen. "Edinburgh firm scoops £50,000 MacRobert prize for innovation shown to cut fuel consumption by up to 27 per cent". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 17 July 2015.

[11] "Artemis Intelligent Power wins MacRobert Award". RAEng. Retrieved 17 July 2015.

[12] Austin-Morgan, Tom. "World's most intelligent prosthetic limb wins MacRobert award". Retrieved 24 June 2016.

[13] "World's most intelligent prosthetic limb wins UK's top innovation prize". Retrieved 24 June 2016.

[14] Cellan-Jones, Rory. "Raspberry Pi scores UK's top engineering award". BBC. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

[RAE-15] "MacRobert award". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

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 * 2015 - Artemis Intelligent Power for the innovation of Digital Displacement hydraulic transmission.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web|title='Massive leap' wins engineering award|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-33552037|publisher=BBC|accessdate=17 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=McArdle|first1=Helen|title=Edinburgh firm scoops £50,000 MacRobert prize for innovation shown to cut fuel consumption by up to 27 per cent|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13439283.Edinburgh_firm_scoops___50_000_MacRobert_prize_for_innovation_shown_to_cut_fuel_consumption_by_up_to_27_per_cent/|publisher=Herald Scotland|accessdate=17 July 2015}}</ref> The judging panel was chaired by [[Sue Ion|Dame Sue Ion]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Artemis Intelligent Power wins MacRobert Award|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2015/july/artemis-intelligent-power-wins-macrobert-award-uk|publisher=RAEng|accessdate=17 July 2015}}</ref>
 * 2016 - Blatchford for the world's most 'intelligent' prosthetic limb.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Austin-Morgan|first1=Tom|title=World's most intelligent prosthetic limb wins MacRobert award|url=http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/design-engineering-news/worlds-most-intelligent-prosthetic-limb-wins-macrobert-award/142485/|accessdate=24 June 2016}}</ref> The judging panel was chaired by [[Sue Ion|Dame Sue Ion]].<ref>{{cite web|title=World's most intelligent prosthetic limb wins UK's top innovation prize|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2016/june/world%E2%80%99s-most-intelligent-prosthetic-limb-wins-uk%E2%80%99s|accessdate=24 June 2016}}</ref>
-* 2017 - Raspberry Pi<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40444356 |title=Raspberry Pi scores UK's top engineering award |last=Cellan-Jones |first=Rory |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2 July 2017}}</ref> "for its inexpensive credit card-sized microcomputers, which are redefining how people engage with computing, inspiring students to learn coding and computer science and providing innovative control solutions for industry."<ref name="RAE">{{cite web |url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/prizes-and-medals/awards/the-macrobert-award |title=MacRobert award |publisher=Royal Academy of Engineering |accessdate=2 July 2017}}</ref>
+* 2017 - [[Raspberry Pi]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40444356 |title=Raspberry Pi scores UK's top engineering award |last=Cellan-Jones |first=Rory |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2 July 2017}}</ref> "for its inexpensive credit card-sized microcomputers, which are redefining how people engage with computing, inspiring students to learn coding and computer science and providing innovative control solutions for industry."<ref name="RAE">{{cite web |url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/prizes-and-medals/awards/the-macrobert-award |title=MacRobert award |publisher=Royal Academy of Engineering |accessdate=2 July 2017}}</ref>
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