<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-07-08T08:44:08Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/6A7D3167-A83D-49B8-96B3-7679A72182EC" ns1:id="6A7D3167-A83D-49B8-96B3-7679A72182EC"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/AB109A74-7221-4D71-8A6E-F534E3C8BAB8" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/72DD9BF4-2998-4EAE-B8F9-8938A0B3CACE" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/72DD9BF4-2998-4EAE-B8F9-8938A0B3CACE" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2020-08-30T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/379F87B8-F7F3-49EF-9533-9FCDEAFE1941" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2019-08-31T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">33893</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>A feasibility study for a custom foot orthotic kiosk</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Collaborative R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>We aim to establish the feasibility of a disruptive, novel, low-cost, fully automated and compact 3D imaging and printer kiosk. It will be available in high-street retailers (e.g. pharmacists) to scan customer's feet, automatically design and then print custom orthotic insoles on demand, within 1-2 hours.

No current solution manufactures custom orthoses on the high-street at a price-point approaching non-custom insoles produced by market leaders Superfeet and Scholl (Bayer Healthcare). Most custom-made insoles cost &amp;pound;200-&amp;pound;400pp. We can achieve this competitive advantage because the kiosk will not require a trained operator to finish and package the project ( up to 60%+ of cost) and because the kiosk itself is built on previous work to automatically design and produce personalised high quality, comfortable, clinically-validated, pressure-reducing orthotics, using low-cost 3D printed materials, at a price-point comparable to off-the-shelf orthoses.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>