From industrial monitoring, to autonomous vehicles, to medical diagnostics, computer vision is already revolutionising a range of industries. Materials-aware vision, however, requires data that conventional (RGB) cameras cannot provide - spectral data - but the expense, size and fragility of current spectral camera systems is prohibitive for many spaces.

Founded by four University of Cambridge researchers in optical physics and semiconductor engineering, Prospectral has designed a new approach to spectral imaging and is building a technology to empower companies with dramatically lower-cost, more compact, and less complex cameras for gathering the data required to detect and analyse materials.