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The MacRobert Award

The MacRobert Award is the premier award for UK engineering innovation.

Nominations are now closed for the MacRobert Award 2023.

The MacRobert Award will open again in October 2023.

The UK's premier prize for engineering innovation

The MacRobert Award is the UK's longest-running and most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation.

Originally founded by the MacRobert Trust, the Award is now presented and run by the Royal Academy of Engineering, with support from the Worshipful Company of Engineers.

Each year the winning team receives a gold medal, widespread publicity ,a £50,000 prize and an exclusive weekend away at Douneside House to recognise outstanding innovation, tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success.

Find out more about the MacRobert Award

MacRobert Award medal

Winner and finalists 2022

The 2022 MacRobert Award winner was announced at the Royal Academy of Engineering Awards Dinner on 12 July 2022 as:

  • Quanta Dialysis Technologies for creating a compact and portable dialysis machine, allowing more flexible and accessible care for patients with renal failure.

The finalists, announced on 6 June 2022 were:

  • Intelligent Growth Solutions for helping to de-risk an agriculture sector that’s facing an ageing farming population and an uncertain, volatile future.
  • Oxford Instruments for developing the Symmetry detector that integrates with scanning electron microscopes and dramatically increases the speed, sensitivity and resolution of analysis that is possible.

Meet the winner and finalists

Quanta Dialysis Technologies SC+ dialysis machine winner of 2022 MacRobert Award

2022 winner: compact dialysis machine patients can use themselves at home

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A stack of coloured DnaNudge wristbands next to a MacRobert Award medal

2021 winner: pioneer of rapid, lab-free COVID-19 testing, DnaNudge

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JCB electric digger being operated indoors, next to two people reading and unaware of its presence

2020 winner: world's first electric digger, from JCB

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