<?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="2026-06-03T15:52:43Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/7F2B9EBC-A72F-4F1E-9FF8-BF87FB55223C" ns1:id="7F2B9EBC-A72F-4F1E-9FF8-BF87FB55223C"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/C8B3205D-7A62-4DBF-8BFC-378159BC8F93" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/15E704D9-AF4E-43B8-ADC7-3F2EA35D9AA0" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/16DE88CA-40A3-4922-A311-4236F980627A" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/15E704D9-AF4E-43B8-ADC7-3F2EA35D9AA0" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2021-03-30T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/F53F38B1-BB6C-4673-B61B-90D73B0C4824" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2020-09-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">80619</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Next Generation Eco-Beds and COVID-19 Related Customer Experience</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Collaborative R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>HSPINKS dominates the niche UK luxury mattress market with hand-built beds. The business has a successful components division and overseas JVs, supplying other brands internationally with its patented spring technology for mattress cores. It has won five Queens awards for innovation/export/environmental impacts and will partner with Binary Consultants in this project to support the bed industry in reacting to COVID related online bed sales.

The project will develop a next generation eco-bed and divan whilst replicating the tactile showroom experience utilising AI and IOT technology.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>