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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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Field Sense by Agile Robotics
Modern agriculture faces increasing pressure to produce more with fewer resources. Farmers struggle with labor shortages, rising costs, and inefficient use of chemicals, which also cause environmental damage. Current solutions rely on large and expensive operations that lack precision and timely insights. As a result, farmers often react too late to issues like pests, diseases, and nutrient deficiencies. There is a clear need for smarter, more efficient systems that enable continuous monitoring, reduce resource use and recude costs, and support sustainable, high-yield farming.
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BioDetect Diapers
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most frequent and impactful health issues among elderly people (in particular woman) living in long-term care facilities. This is the case due to atypical symptoms, cognitive decline, and Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (ASB), which on its way can lead to delayed diagnosis, inappropriate antibiotic use, and costly hospitalizations. This leads to unnecesasary discomfort and a decline in overall health. At the same time, caregivers are left managing frequent diaper changes, more complex care needs, and rising treatment costs. Which all could be prevented by earlier UTI diagnosis.
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LogicLayer
Industrial distributors process complex, high-stakes orders via messy "analog inbound", emails with blurry photos of rusted nameplates, 40-page foreign manuals, and hand-drawn sketches. Processing these manually means highly-paid sales engineers waste hours playing data-entry clerk just to extract basic specs. Because processing is chronological, a lucrative €50,000 engine order can sit unread while an engineer wastes 40 minutes deciphering a €500 pump request. This bottleneck costs companies major deals. Worse, generic AI cannot solve this because it hallucinates technical specs and poses massive data privacy risks when fed proprietary ERP data.
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Dyulon
Aerial delivery has been discussed for a long time, but significant advancements in this technology have yet to be made. Aerial delivery is particularly useful for reaching hard-to-access areas, such as islands and deserts. However, the current challenge is that the costs often outweigh the benefits. At present, drones are the most viable option, but they do not justify their price given their limited range and flight time. The issue is not with the power source; rather, it's that drones must generate both thrust and lift from their rotors, which makes them inefficient.
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Kolibair
Emergency services, especially fire brigades, often lack fast, reliable aerial awareness that regular crews can deploy and operate with minimal training. Today’s quadcopter drones used in emergencies are often expensive, limiting availability across brigades, and typically fly only 30-45 minutes, forcing frequent, time-consuming battery swaps during critical incident phases. They also struggle to cover larger areas and usually require constant pilot attention, while helicopters are costly and not always available. The result is delays and blind spots in tracking fire spread, locating hotspots, and searching for missing people - so crews sometimes abandon drones when they become impractical.
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Calmi Vest
Anxiety and panic don’t wait for therapy appointments. When stress spikes, people often lack an immediate, private, and effective way to downshift their nervous system—especially in public, at work, or in the wild. Current tools (breathing apps, meditations, fidgets) require attention and time precisely when attention is scarce. Weighted blankets and hugs help, but they’re not portable or “on-demand.” Meanwhile, wearables detect stress signals, but rarely translate that data into fast, embodied relief. The need: a discreet, rapid, body-based intervention that can activate at the right moment.
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BTScout
Bij werkzaamheden aan dijken en spoorleidingen ontbreekt vaak voldoende inzicht in wat er onder en rondom de grond gebeurt. Dit brengt risico’s met zich mee voor de veiligheid, het monitoren van de infrastructuur en de planning van graafwerkzaamheden. Daarnaast kunnen dieren zoals bevers en dassen worden verstoord of raken hun burchten beschadigd, wat zowel ecologische als logistieke problemen veroorzaakt voor dijk- en spoorbeheerders.
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BRUSHLESS
Painting large surfaces is an expensive, logistically complicated, time consuming, physically demanding, and dangerous job. Individuals and companies in large scale painting industries rely on scaffolding, lifts, and long hours, leading to risk of injury.
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Stratos Dynamics
Our stratospheric glide aircraft start-up intends to addresses three primary challenges on a phased basis: 1. Current atmospheric data collection relies on single-use weather balloons that drift unpredictably and who’s sensors are rarely recovered. This creates pollution and results in increased costs. 2. Existing satellite infrastructure is prohibitively expensive and rigid, making it difficult to integrate rapid changes in sensor or communication technology.
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