UNSW Sydney start-up Contactile was part of the team that recently took out the top prize of $50,000 in the Bionic Senses category of Bionics Queensland Challenge 2020. Contactile founders Heba Khamis, Benjamin Xia and Stephen Redmond were the chosen industry partner of project lead Associate Professor, Ajay Pandey of QUT.
Creating a prosthetic device that gives users an accurate sense of pressure, position, and surface deformation in digital form, the team proposed to transform the future of prosthetic devices by embedding innovative touch sensors to create the bionic sense of touch.