Devices & Diagnostics

Inflatable baby incubator wins this year’s James Dyson Award

Loughborough University graduate James Roberts, inventor of MOM, the inflatable incubator, and James Dyson Award […]

Loughborough University graduate James Roberts, inventor of MOM, the inflatable incubator, and James Dyson Award winner, said he hoped the final product would be used in the developing world.

“I was watching a Panorama program on BBC about Syrian refugees, and they had a segment about how there are loads of premature kids dying because of the stresses of war and specifically the lack of incubators out there and the infrastructure to support them,” he recalled. “I thought there has to be a way to solve that.”

The prototype was picked up for the award, and Roberts added that the £30,000 award meant that he could continue work on the machine, which he now hopes to bring to market by 2017.

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