Nominations for the 2025 award are now closed. Finalists will be announced in June 2025.
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.
The presentation of the Award recognises outstanding innovation coupled with tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success.
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 .
2024 winner
The 2024 MacRobert Award winner is:
Google DeepMind whose GraphCast technology uses cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and vast data sets to give highly accurate and timely weather predictions up to ten days in advance.
2024 finalists
The 2024 MacRobert Award finalists are:
Sunamp who have pioneered the development of innovative heat batteries utilising phase change materials to revolutionise thermal energy storage.
University of Oxford, AstraZeneca and partners who led a consortium of manufacturers, suppliers and other partners in the development of an innovative manufacturing process that was rolled out globally to supply over 3 billion doses of the ChAdOx1 Covid vaccine, saving over 6 million lives.
