While working on project teams, students also develop so-called soft skills like collaboration and time management.
Malcolm Coles, Trinity Mirror product director, and digital product development consultant Martin Belam, who launched UsvsTh3m, are now working on Project Y, focusing on "socially shareable data journalism".
Sony is working on Project Morpheus, which has the same aim, and HTC has built Vive, unveiled at Mobile World Congress in March, which will work with the Valve system for downloadable games.
Following recent testing in Australia, Google has also determined that deliveries with self-flying vehicles are practical, says Phil Swinsburg of Unmanned Systems Australia, a firm working on Project Wing, as the Google drone effort is known.DHL, a logistics giant based in Germany, has already begun to deliver medicine by a "parcelcopter" drone (pictured) to Juist, a small island in the North Sea.
"I think that's going to light a few candles," said Neil Milburn, vice president of Armadillo Aerospace, a tiny Texas company working on Project M. But as NASA's attention turns away from the Moon — "We've been there before," President Obama declared in April — the prospects for sending a robot there are at best uncertain.
Intel and Ford are working on Project Mobil – a face recognition system that, should it fail to recognise the face of the driver, would not only prevent the car being started but also send the picture to the car's owner (bad news for teenagers).
