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Team Steel Blue Phoenix

Eerika Hietaniemi July 2, 2025

Introducing Rope Runner, our Wire Rope Tester and a beacon of innovation in elevator circularity. With sensor-based technology, it offers comprehensive insights into rope status before withdrawal, unlocking a future of circularity. Connected to an online database, it streamlines inventorying and offers potential market integration for third parties.

Join us in our quest to elevate safety and embrace sustainability. Together, let’s pave the way for a future where every test is a testament to excellence and every rope tells a story of renewal. Elevating the future, one test at a time.

Sponsor: Kone

Team KONE

Eerika Hietaniemi June 30, 2025

Take a second and imaging what the future of the city will look like will it look like the Avatar or maybe even the Matrix?

Our team has collaborated with KONE to use speculative design to derive plausible future scenarios for the life of urban developers in 2040. We have seen trends towards remote work, communal living, urban mobility and many more. At our booth, you can experience these future scenarios first-hand by exploring an immersive VR world. You can join the day of life of a future urban developer in 4 different levels displaying different plausible futures. Today you are shaping this future so join us into the endevaour into 2040.

Sponsor: KONE

Team Five

Eerika Hietaniemi June 30, 2025

After a long day full of tasks to do and deadlines to catch, getting your essential everyday items delivered should not add anymore compulsory communications and arrangements to your to do list.

By ordering items to be delivered using our drones, your packaged will be carried, handled, sorted and kept safely in a dropshop located no further than 5 min walk from your home.

You can get the items whenever you want 24/7, as quick as you need all contactless, all hassle free.

Sponsor: KONE

Team FutuLift

Aaro Packalén July 5, 2019

A robot installing an elevator – not science fiction anymore. The laborsome and completely manual installation in a dark narrow shaft by two technicians is the reality today. Team FutuLift says “No more!” and presents a brand new elevator concept that can be installed by a robot. Starting from scratch, the team has combined traditional origami folding techniques, modern materials, and digital robot automation to display a unique design that truly represents the future.

Sponsor: KONE

Team Freelevator

Aaro Packalén July 5, 2019

The Freelevator is an unconventional elevator of the future. By cutting down on cables and counterweights, we’re allowing the elevator to move not just vertically, but horizontally as well. And while doing so, we’re also conserving energy. The elevator car will be suspended between two shaft walls which allows it to go as high up as desired and also anywhere within one floor. This will bring forth a revolution in the way we build cities in the future and how we move about in larger buildings and other structures.

Sponsor: KONE