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TU Delft Impact Contest
Eleqit
Electric bikes are becoming increasingly popular, but they still have several major barriers: High cost – Many electric bikes are too expensive for students, young adults, and people on a budget. Limited customization – Users cannot easily customize their e-bike to match their needs or preferences. Complex assembly – Converting or assembling an electric bike yourself can be difficult without the right system or guidance. Battery concerns – Users worry about battery life, performance, and reliability. Security risks – Bike theft is common, and many bikes lack integrated GPS tracking systems. Lack of integration with smartphones – Many bikes do not offer a simple mobile app to track location, battery life, or performance. These barriers prevent many people from accessing sustainable electric transportation.
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Memento.AI
On 1 January 2025, the Netherlands had 3,755,679 inhabitants aged 65 years and over. This represents 20.8 percent of the population. People want to age in the comfort of their own homes, yet most existing houses are not designed to support aging. Renovation costs are high, and the decision-making process is complex. Moreover, home adaptation is not a one-time fix but a long-term need tied to a user’s evolving physical data and habits. Current solutions are too static and fail to provide ongoing, personalized guidance for safe renovation.
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Qrest
Musculoskeletal pain is the #1 cause of disability in the Netherlands, affecting ~50% of adults annually and costing insurers over €6.5 billion per year, projected to rise sharply with ageing. Yet care remains fragmented and reactive. Home exercise adherence is low due to lack of feedback and personalization. Access is uneven, with financial barriers for patients without supplementary insurance and long waitlists in specialised care. Early sessions are costly, while conservative prevention is underutilised. The result is poorer outcomes, relapse cycles, and escalating insurer spending on imaging, specialist visits, and surgery instead of scalable, preventive rehabilitation solutions.
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Urban Explorer
Current urban exploration tools are either uninspiring or rely on commercialized, "grindy" AR mechanics that ignore local culture. This leaves solo and group explorers without a meaningful reason to engage with their surroundings. Urban Explorer fills this void by gamifying the discovery of local history and artisanal businesses. We address the lack of visibility for smaller cities and "mom-and-pop" shops, transforming routine walks into rewarding quests. By replacing forced social raids with organic, curiosity-driven challenges, we help users reclaim their neighborhoods as personal playgrounds of cultural discovery.
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CellaCure Technologies
Up to 400,000 adverse surgical outcomes are entirely preventable every year. Currently, 25% to 50% of malpractice cases stem from surgical errors, largely because surgeons must train on rigid, unrealistic plastics. Hospitals want to translate patient MRI scans into realistic soft-tissue phantoms, but current methods fail them. Traditional phantom labs rely on manual molding and casting, which is incredibly slow, unreliable, and cannot produce patient-specific anatomies. Meanwhile, commercial 3D printers cannot process complex medical hydrogels, forcing researchers into a 6-to-8-month "DIY" hardware nightmare that wastes up to €20,000 per project. This massive bottleneck drains budgets and keeps life-saving training tools out of the operating room, leaving surgeons underprepared and patients at risk.
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Drone Autonomous Service Hub
Drones are a mature technology with numerous applications, however we are yet to see them reach the scale of usage of cars or planes. This expansion is severely limited by batteries, which require manual replacement and take long to recharge. The need to replace or recharge drones with human intervention leads to a high downtime between operating cycles and limits the expansion of operations severely. Just like we have highways for trucks, harbors for ships and airports for planes, we believe now is the time to build the world's first dedicated drone infrastructure system.
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GymSense
Optimisation is a big deal in the fitness industry, professional weight lifters are always seeking to find the ideal path of motion to lift the most weight, and even more recreational gym goers pay special attention to improving their form. The current products and methods of tracking the velocity, acceleration, path of motion and more parameters of body parts and weights are either very imprecise or stupidly expensive, making them inaccessible for most people.
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Routly
Supply chains are under real pressure right now. Geopolitical uncertainty is making operations unstable, and costs keep rising. Every extra mile costs money. Also no vehicle route planning platform on the market can do real-time reoptimization today. That's a gap we're excited to close.
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The Curiosity Contest
The Dutch space industry is growing, and there is an increasing need for students, especially those from diverse academic backgrounds. Many students from those non-space disciplines are interested in working in the space sector and have ideas to improve the industry, but they do not know how to come in contact with it. There is currently a disconnect between the space industry and these students. They struggle to find each other, and we want to bridge the gap through our organization, The Curiosity Contest, by hosting a competition and fair that brings these two groups together.
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Buoyant Industries
Europe's 500,000+ km of powerlines, 230,000 km of managed waterways, and hundreds of thousands of kilometres of pipelines and rail require regular inspection to prevent failures. Current methods such as ground patrols, manned helicopters, and short-range quadcopters are expensive, infrequent, and leave significant monitoring gaps. Helicopters cost ~€20,000/flight hour; quadcopters are limited to 20–40 km range and under one hour of endurance, requiring constant redeployment and on-site pilots. The result: inspections occur just 2–5 times per year, driven by cost rather than operational need, leaving critical infrastructure under-monitored between visits.
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