• Advanced manufacturing start-ups from around the world competed for a spot on Hexagon’s Sixth Sense open innovation platform, with 8 now getting the chance to win the top two coveted positions.
• Sixth Sense was set up by manufacturing leader Hexagon in order to help de-risk the innovative and exciting solutions developed by start-ups that may otherwise not reach the right customers.
• This second cohort’s technical challenge focusses on digital reality and automation, and was targeted at seeking out some of the best tech advances to tackle prevalent issues such as sustainability, supply chain instability and improving how people work in engineering and manufacturing.