We’re reimagining what it means to be alive.

Technology has become woven into every aspect of daily life, shaping how we care for ourselves, connect with others, manage our homes and experience the world around us.

As intelligence becomes embedded within products, services and environments, ambitious organisations have an opportunity to redefine the relationship between people and technology with innovation that doesn’t demand attention, but works quietly in the background, helping people live more fully and focus on what matters most.

What we do

The most successful innovations sit at the intersection of breakthrough technology, human needs and commercial opportunity. By combining human insight with a deep tech strategy, we create experiences that are more intuitive and meaningful, and where technology feels less like something we use and more like something that helps us thrive.

We partner with ambitious clients to co-create the future. Together, we turn bold ideas into commercially successful products, services and experiences that disrupt markets, unlock growth and establish a defensible competitive advantage.

Future homes

The home is becoming more complex, not just in terms of technology, but in what people expect from it. Homes must be privacy-preserving, context-aware, highly automated, resilient and effortless to manage. Yet today’s architectures are struggling to keep pace. Fragmentation is slowing adoption, trust remains fragile, software lifecycles are accelerating and electrified homes are becoming increasingly dependent on variable infrastructure. These challenges cannot be solved through incremental innovation alone.

At the same time, we’re seeing the emergence of a new Future Home ecosystem that will disrupt value chains, products and services. The value from this ecosystem will not come from more ‘smart’ devices, but from intelligent outcomes that understand context, anticipate needs and adapt around those who live within them.

With our unique combination of capabilities and platforms, we work with our clients to create entirely new categories of in-home interaction that are elevated by this new and emerging home ecosystem. Through the strategic application of advanced AI and first principles engineering, we can work together to deliver proprietary experiences that transform consumer expectation and establish a lasting deep tech advantage.

Wellness

Consumers are more engaged with their wellbeing than ever, seeking greater control over both how they feel today and how they age. Healthcare is becoming more consumerised, regulatory lines are shifting and people have access to more data about their health than ever. The challenge now becomes how to break that data down to make it both meaningful and actionable for the consumer.

We partner with clients to bridge that gap, bringing together connected wearables and agentic coaching experiences to personalise guidance. By translating technologies from the lab, clinic and salon into intuitive products and services, we help empower people to make informed decisions, take control of their health and safely achieve better wellbeing outcomes with confidence.

Location-based entertainment

Whether it’s a theme park, stadium game or a band in concert, truly memorable experiences are defined by whether people feel part of something special, not simply observers watching it happen. But delivering this at scale is not currently achievable in ways that would be truly meaningful. Attractions cost more to build, labour shortages and the need to truly connect entertainment experiences with individual visitors are accelerating the need for automation, and spectacle alone rarely creates lasting engagement once a guest has seen it before.

What’s changing is where value is created. Creating memorable moments takes more than a series of individual touchpoints. It requires intelligent, connected environments that adapt in real time, anticipating needs, removing friction and placing each visitor at the centre of the experience. The real opportunity lies in the intelligence layer on top of the ride, the screens, the venue: systems that understand context, adapt in real time and create experiences that feel personal to every visitor.

We help IP owners, venue operators and technology providers create these adaptive experiences by combining agentic AI, advanced sensing and intelligent orchestration. From personalised journeys and refreshable content to dynamic venue operations, we enable experiences that continuously evolve, making every guest feel that it was made for them every time.

Food and beverages

Food and drink have always played a central role in how people connect, celebrate and experience life. We’re harnessing first principles science and engineering to make those experiences better.

Combining sector insights with advanced fluidics expertise, we partner with clients to create distinctive food and beverage experiences, from the perfect crema and silky foamed textures to personalised interactions in both on-trade and at-home environments. Supported by on-site wet and dry laboratories and a dedicated beverage lab, we develop novel dispense systems from early science exploration and food-safe prototyping through to scale up and high-volume manufacture.

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Our expertise

We develop technologies that enable machines to understand people and their context, and use that understanding to interact naturally, respond appropriately and work effectively alongside us.

We cover both halves of the problem. First, figuring out what to build: we generate cognitive and behavioural insights about what people need, how they behave and what they will accept. Our approach is always evidence-based, and we scale it to the project. That can mean full human-subjects studies, lighter-touch methods such as online or simulation-based experiments and new analysis of existing data, or expert judgement where time and budget are tight. Then, building it: we develop multi-modal sensing and modelling of people in real-world context, and context-aware intelligent systems that make interaction feel intuitive. Our team combines AI, sensing and perception, cognitive and behavioural science, and human-centred engineering, so the science shapes the technology from the start rather than being added later.

We draw on a wealth of experience when addressing each new challenge, having developed human-machine solutions across a range of industries. By grounding every system in a real understanding of people, we create technology that people use, trust and work with naturally.

CC combines data from multiple sensing technologies to reveal insights that no single sensor can provide. From intelligent consumer products and medical devices to industrial systems, we bring together complementary sensing modalities to deliver more reliable, accurate and context-aware solutions.

Our expertise spans the fusion of data from cameras, microphones, radar, lidar, inertial, environmental and physiological sensors, alongside advanced signal processing, machine learning and AI. By combining multiple sources of information, we enable systems to perceive and interpret real-world conditions more effectively, overcoming the limitations of individual sensors and unlocking new levels of performance.

CC develops physical AI systems that enable machines to perceive, understand and act within the real world. By combining AI, robotics and sensing technologies, we help organisations create intelligent systems that can operate safely and effectively alongside people.

Our expertise spans the full physical AI stack, including whole body control, fine manipulation, edge AI, low-latency connectivity, digital twins and AI assurance. We apply functionality where it delivers the greatest value, whether in the robot itself, at the edge, within cloud-based systems or across the wider operational ecosystem.

Our approach to agentic AI is built around five interconnected layers: sensing, perception, knowledge, reasoning and action. Together, they enable systems to understand the world around them, make informed decisions and take meaningful action.

By combining expertise in AI, human-machine understanding, sensing technologies, connected systems and software engineering, we help clients build agentic solutions that operate in complex real-world environments.

Explore our approach to agentic AI

We specialise in developing robotics in areas that have not traditionally been automated or, in some cases, where automation was not even considered possible.

This requires more than just robotics expertise. Our experience in novel sensor technology, machine vision and AI are equally critical to automating ’semi-structured’ tasks – tasks that are clearly defined yet not purely repetitive. For example, as opposed to a robot that will pick all the apples on a tree, we might design a robot that picks only the ripe ones.

We draw on a wealth of experience when addressing each new challenge, having created robotic solutions across a range of industries, including industrial, consumer, agricultural and medical.

At CC we are the leading the way in intelligent simulation tools, offering a comprehensive suite of services for testing autonomous systems.

Our unique approach utilises synthetic data to create tailored operational environments, run AI algorithms and evaluate sensor performance.

This advanced simulation offers numerous benefits, including the potential for up to 95% reduction in data collection costs, accelerated product development, improved safety and scenario testing.

Understanding and optimising the flow of liquids, gases and heat can be critical design parameters. By understanding how heat will flow and how fluids and gases will interact with the proposed system, the time and cost of iteration and testing can be greatly reduced.

One of the earliest examples of our success in this field is inkjet printing, from which we created numerous spinouts, including billion-dollar companies Domino and Xaar.

Our consultancy teams are adept in nanofluidics, microfluidics and multiphase fluidics, with particular strengths in aerosol generation at a range of temperatures. We’ve also made significant progress in DNA liquid aerosols and nebulisers.

Our Product realisation capability ensures that products are not only innovative but also manufacturable, functional, and optimised for the end-user experience. This holistic approach integrates design, function, and manufacturing right from the start, ensuring a smooth path to production.

A core element of realisation is our Design for Manufacturing (DFM) expertise. Our DFM engineers and New Product Introduction (NPI) teams collaborate closely with our trusted Contract Manufacturing (CM) partners to ensure designs are optimised for both performance and manufacturability. This close partnership reduces costly iterations and speeds up the journey to market.

We go beyond traditional DFM by addressing cross-functional challenges, optimising mechanical architecture, UX, and ID, while maintaining design authority throughout.

This is especially valuable for breakthrough innovations, allowing us to deliver high-quality products faster, providing significant value to our clients and giving them a competitive edge.

By overcoming constraints around size, weight and power, CC uses miniaturisation to create products and experiences that are more intuitive, wearable and seamlessly integrated into everyday life.

Through first-principles engineering, we reimagine technologies and system architectures to deliver greater capability in smaller, lighter and less intrusive form factors. We create highly integrated systems that consolidate functionality, increase performance density and overcome the limitations of traditional designs.

From consumer devices and wearables to medical technologies and sensing platforms, we help o unlock new possibilities without compromising performance.

Our facilities

Food and beverages lab

Specifically set up to meet the unique requirements of developing safe food and beverage systems, our dedicated lab means we have the necessary procedures and equipment to design and test new products in-house.

Quantitative and scientific testing is fundamental to CC’s science-led technology innovation approach, but ultimately taste tests are always needed. This is our only lab where the consumption of food and drink is not just allowed but essential!

Prototyping workshops

Our electronic and mechanical prototyping workshops allow us to produce technically credible prototypes that bring ideas to life and offer a powerful demonstration of value – all while maintaining extremely high standards of quality that conform to ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and ISO 14001 regulations.

Using the latest CNC and milling machines, lathes, welding gear and wire harness and cable assembly tools, we are able to produce parts very quickly and assemble full-scale working prototypes for testing and consumer trials.

Analytical labs

Our analytical laboratories provide high accuracy measurement and analysis for the wide range of projects we undertake.

Specialist equipment includes a gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GCMS), a Matersizer particle size analyser, a Spraytec laser diffraction droplet size analyser, high-speed and thermal imaging cameras and rapid-development custom image analysis software.

Engineering biology labs

Our microbiology lab spaces enable us to genetically modify micro-organisms and characterise them.

The CC bioengineering facilities are containment level 2 rated for handling pathogenic strains and our in-house libraries allow rapid modular DNA construct design and assembly. With deep synthetic biology expertise, we are particularly adept at building organisms as biological sensors for healthcare and industrial biotech applications.

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