Mindsheet Wins Innovation Of The Year Award

In association with the The News, Mindsheet has won ‘Innovation Of The Year Award’. The team were presented with the award at The News Business Excellence Awards ceremony in Portsmouth in January 2009.

In association with the The News, Mindsheet has won ‘Innovation Of The Year Award’.  The team were presented with the award at The News Business Excellence Awards ceremony in Portsmouth in January 2009.innovationaward 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Awards were a chance to honour companies and organisations across the South East Hampshire region.   The nine award categories reflected the merits of team work, community involvement, innovation and high achievement. Forty-eight entries made it onto the shortlist across all categories.

Innovation of the Year Trophy
Innovation of the Year Tropy

Amid such an amazing range of local business talent at the Gala Awards Dinner, we were happily surprised to win the Innovation of the Year category –

“For individuals or businesses which had shown a proclivity to ‘think outside the box’, becoming the first in their field to embark on a particular course of action, or having researched and developed a particularly novel and useful system or product”.

for our Testudo robot spy buggy – a remote control reconnaissance device that combat troops can send into enemy territory to scout for hazards.

The robot was developed in response to the 2008 MOD Grand Challenge.  It gave us the perfect platform to demonstrate how we work with our customers to gain a deep understanding of their operations and behaviour.  We specialise in helping companies develop breakthrough products and services in highly complex environments. 

Throughout the exercise we involved soldiers with recent active service experience to guide the development so that it was soldier friendly and relevant.  Following our success at the Grand Challenge we are in discussions with the MoD who recently agreed to fund the next stage of development.

Learn more about our exploits in the MOD Grand Challenge.