This Year’s Technologies
Each year, Y-Prize spotlights a cutting-edge technology invented by Penn scientists and challenges students to imagine its commercial future. This year, two technologies are in play — learn more about both and choose the one that sparks your best idea.
SPOTs
Technology 1
Scalable Reflective Optical Communication for Microscopic Electronics: a way for microscopic devices to communicate wirelessly using reflected light.
UTSA
Technology 2
Uniform Twisted String Actuator: a lightweight and low-cost muscle-like actuator for next-generation robotics and electromechanical systems.
EXPLORE THE Y-PRIZE
Learn more about the competition.
Understand the resources and timelines.