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Creative Destruction Lab and ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ by the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship, an ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ-wide initiative led by ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School, working closely with the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ said: “Healthcare systems worldwide are under increasing pressure, and robotics-enabled technologies will play a critical role in transforming how care is delivered. ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’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.