2024 EDGE Awards: Announcing this Year's Standout Products

Winners have been selected for the 2024 EDGE Awards, celebrating innovation across many facets of the design and engineering industry.

Readers of Machine Design—as well as affiliate brands Power & Motion, Electronic Design, Microwaves & RF, Laser Focus World, Military + Aerospace Electronics and Vision Systems Design—helped choose this year’s winners and honorees in eight categories as well as an overall Leading EDGE Winner, recognizing the innovation with the most votes.

Below are winners and honorees by category; winners will receive a physical award honoring their achievement in the 2024 EDGE Awards.

The 48V Industrial Swappable Battery from Green Cubes Technology are based on Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) technology, considered to be one of the cell chemistries on the market.

Leading Edge Winner

48V Industrial Swappable Battery (1000) from Green Cubes Technology

The 48V Industrial Swappable Battery was nominated under the Electronic Components and Enclosures category. Green Cubes Technology developed this battery to provide fast or hot-swapping capabilities for various applications including mobile workstations and industrial mobile robots.

Automation and Controls

PLC, SCADA and networks and software used to manage control systems and data.

WINNER

PICO Nexμs Jetting System from Nordson EFD

HONOREES

Stratix 5200 fully managed Ethernet switches from Rockwell Automation

Mod-Sort Large Format System from Regal Rexnord

Communication

Wireless and wired systems, modules and software that facilitate communication between chips, modules and systems.

WINNER

Wi-Fi HaLow Portfolio from Morse Micro

HONOREES

AI+5G O-RAN Solution from SynaXG

Filogic 860 and Filogic 360 from MediaTek

Computing Hardware, Software and Systems

Edge computing devices and interfaces, as well as the compute, storage and communication modules and systems used to analyze data and assist design engineers.

WINNER

N1 SoC Series from Ambarella

HONOREES

DA-1200, a Rugged & Cost-effective Intel Alder Lake-N Computer from Cincoze Co., Ltd.

SiFive Performance P870 and Intelligence X390 from SiFive

Electronic Components & Enclosures

Passive electronic components like capacitors, transistors or diodes, connectors, cables, antennas and switches.

WINNER

224G Product Portfolio from Molex

HONOREES

EC1005P from Empower Semiconductor

IHPT Series Haptic Feedback Actuators With Immersion Licenses from Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.*

TRIO POWER Third Generation from Phoenix Contact *

Editor's note: Products with an asterisk were tied for third place in this category.

Machine Learning/Deep Learning

Hardware and software that incorporates or is designed to improve product quality, supply chain management and production throughput.

WINNER

Astra AI-Native Edge IoT Platform from Synaptics

HONOREES

Intel SceneScape from Intel

SEERai from Galorath Incorporated

Machine Vision & Inspection

Cameras, sensors, lenses, filters, lighting, frame grabbers, software and systems

WINNER

In-Sight L38 from Cognex

HONOREES

Lattice sensAI solution stack from Lattice Semiconductor

Theia IQ Lens System from Theia Technologies

Robotics & Motion Control

Pneumatic, hydraulic and electric motion control components and systems including actuators, cylinders, ball screws, motors and drives, and accessories such as fasteners, bearings, belts and chains, as well as fluids, filters and compressed air systems.

WINNER

PixONE from Bota Systems

HONOREES

ArmorKinetix Distributed Servo Drives from Rockwell Automation

OilN2 from Inventive Resources, Inc.

Optical & Photonics

This includes adaptive optics, optical materials (such as metamaterials), optical coatings, precision optics, micro-optics, lenses, mirrors, aspheres, prisms and freeform optics. This category also includes lighting products for machine vision applications.

WINNER

Tunable Laser System from Spectrolight, Inc.

HONOREES

TS8401/02 intelligent 400G (4x100G) PAM4 modulator driver from TeraSignal

DP50 High Pulse Energy DPSS Nanosecond Lasers from Photonics Industries International, Inc.