AWARDS | BEEAS 2019
EAX DCEECLALDEEN OCEF The British Engineering Excellence Awards
has charted the breadth and depth of talent
in the UK’s design engineering community
for the last 10 years. Over the last decade
the BEEAs has gone from strength to
strength, as has the quality of the entries.
The ten-year anniversary
of the British Engineering
Excellence Awards
(BEEAs) was held in the
luxurious surroundings of The
Landmark London on Friday 11
October where robotics start-up
Automata was named the winner of
the Grand Prix prize.
Automata is on a mission to
democratise robotics. Founded
in 2014 by architects Mostafa
ElSayed and Suryansh Chandra, the
company was born out of the need
to nd a cost-effective approach to
industrial automation when the only
options available were prohibitively
expensive industrial robots, or basic
robot arms sold on Amazon that are
little more than toys.
The work of Automata could
change all that. The company’s Eva
robot is affordable and easy-to-use,
while also being t-for-purpose in an
industrial context.
Having launched commercially in
March 2019, the company has now
surpassed 150+ orders, with many
happy customers with successful
deployments who are now making
repeat multi-unit orders.
In honour of it being the tenth
anniversary of the BEEAs, a
Design Engineer of the Decade
category was awarded. This saw
every previous winner of Design
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