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TU Delft Impact Contest
Canopy.ag
Worldwide, pomaceous (e.g. apple and pear) farmers are facing a labour shortage. They rely on seasonal workers from abroad to harvest their crops, but the availability of these workers is scarce. In addition, labour costs are rising as governments introduce stricter regulations for foreign workers. Labour shortages and rising costs are putting pressure on farmers’ production capacity. A solution is needed to ensure food security and support struggling farmers.
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Spec2Solve
Researchers with deep domain knowledge waste time translating ideas into solver-ready optimization models: choosing variables, constraints, indices, and relaxations, then debugging feasibility and scaling. This “spec-to-code” gap causes slow iteration, fragile implementations, and modeling errors.
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Agile Robotics
The problem we are addressing is the traditional manufacturing of unmanned systems. It is slow, expensive, and inflexible with high tooling costs, long development cycles, and dependence on overseas production. As a result, the development of new innovative unmanned systems is unnecessarily expensive and takes really long to develop. This limits innovation, slows down deployment, and reduces European technological independence. We see a clear need for a faster, more adaptable, and locally scalable way to develop and manufacture unmanned systems.
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TangentAir
Nowadays, Air Traffic Control (ATC) manages airspace sectors, which can become crowded and cause delays. The current solution to this problem is manual command issues by the ATC, which is reactive to the situations. Moreover, with the technological advancements, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and large drones are becoming more mainstream, meaning that the airspace will be even more crowded in the future. It is apparent that with the expected direction of advancement, a reactive solution to crowded airspace may be insufficient, which is what needs to be addressed.
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Haku Maglev
Rail transport is slow, capacity is underutilized, maintenance is high, and performance is weather dependent. Additionally, around 25% of trains in the Netherlands still operate on diesel, causing high emissions and unsustainable rail operations.
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Topper Talent
Engineering students at TU Delft often work underpaid jobs that don’t utilize their full technical skills, while startups and small tech companies struggle to find affordable, highly skilled talent for short-term engineering tasks.
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NeuroLearn
Traditional education follows a one-size-fits-all approach, despite students having different learning speeds, strengths, and weaknesses. As a result, students often practice skills they have already mastered, while struggling areas remain insufficiently addressed. Teachers also lack scalable tools to personalize learning for every student. To compensate, many families turn to private tutors, who are often expensive and not always aligned with the specific curriculum or learning goals. This leads to inefficient use of time, unequal access to support, and inconsistent learning outcomes. An affordable, adaptive solution is needed to personalize learning at scale.
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Samen Hypotheek
Students and recent graduates face an extreme shortage of affordable housing, making individual homeownership nearly impossible. While buying a home collectively with a group of friends is a viable solution, the financial, legal, and organizational barriers are incredibly high. Traditional mortgages and legal frameworks are not suited for multi-owner group structures. This leaves young adults locked out of the housing market, unable to build equity or secure stable living conditions during a crucial phase of their lives.
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SkyRescue
Emergency situations such as fires, earthquakes, floods, and collapsed buildings often leave victims trapped in hard-to-reach or hazardous environments. Current response methods rely heavily on human teams and ground-based equipment, which are slow, risky, and sometimes unable to deliver life-saving aid quickly. Delays in locating victims and providing critical supplies reduce survival chances and increase danger for both victims and responders. There is a clear need for a rapid, adaptive, and airborne system that can reach inaccessible areas, assess the situation, and provide immediate support to save lives.
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Lite
Creating high-quality, music-synchronized light shows is either very time-consuming, expensive, or both. Small venues can’t afford dedicated lighting operators and end up with generic or poorly timed lights, while large events spend huge amounts of time manually programming and time-coding shows. There’s a need for a tool that keeps creative control in human hands but removes the repetitive, technical work making it easier and faster to build, test, and run professional light shows at any scale.
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