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Creative Destruction Lab and Imperial are launching a healthcare robotics stream at CDL-London for founders seeking to commercialise innovations in medical robotics, active sensing, and physical AI.

The programme supports the development of hardware-enabled technologies that bring cutting-edge precision and automation into hospitals, homes, and communities to deliver personalised healthcare at scale.

is hosted at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ by the Imperial Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship, an Imperial-wide initiative led by Imperial Business School, working closely with the Imperial Enterprise Lab to deliver the 9-month mentorship programme. By connecting technical founders with mentors and domain experts, CDL-London will provide a structured programme designed to help teams develop their value propositions, prioritise milestones, and build teams more capable of massively scaling. 

“As Europe’s only leading business school embedded in a world-class STEM university, we uniquely connect science and business. Through initiatives like CDL and the new Healthcare Robotics stream, we convene business thinking, scientific rigour and technological expertise to shape a better and healthier future for humanity.” Professor Peter Todd Dean of Imperial Business School

The launch of the healthcare robotics stream arrives at a critical technological inflection point where medical hardware is shifting from rigid, open-loop tools to context-aware agents capable of operating in unstructured environments. This shift is essential to addressing global healthcare capacity gaps. The convergence of robotics, sensing, and autonomy technologies is unlocking a broad array of commercial opportunities across the entire care pathway - from hospitals to homes. 

Professor Mary Ryan, Vice Provost (Research and Enterprise) at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ said: “Healthcare systems worldwide are under increasing pressure, and robotics-enabled technologies will play a critical role in transforming how care is delivered. Imperial is a world leader in embodied intelligence, and this new Healthcare Robotics stream will bring together expertise across engineering, robotics, computing, medicine and entrepreneurship to accelerate the development of intelligent, real-world solutions. By supporting founders working at the cutting edge of hardware and AI, we can help translate innovation more rapidly into clinical and in-home settings, addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing individuals and society today.”

Professor Peter Todd, Dean of Imperial Business School said: “As Europe’s only leading business school embedded in a world-class STEM university, we uniquely connect science and business. Through initiatives like CDL and the new Healthcare Robotics stream, we convene business thinking, scientific rigour and technological expertise to shape a better and healthier future for humanity.”

CDL-London Healthcare Robotics will focus on a range of areas including the use of service robotics for logistics, sanitation and pharmacy dispensing and robotic aides for in-home care.

London is uniquely positioned to host this specialism due to its proximity to world-class research and clinical networks. The stream is anchored by Imperial’s excellence in bioengineering and robotics and strong ties to the NHS.

Ventures interested in applying to CDL Healthcare Robotics can apply on the website.