The Television Academy has awarded both the Agito Dolly system and Lucidlink and in the 2025 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards.
The awards honour an individual, company or organisation for developments in broadcast technology. The awards ceremony will be held Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, California.
Rob Drewett and Andy Nancollis were awarded for the development of Bristol-based Motion Impossible’s AGITO Dolly System, the compact modular robotic dolly system designed to keep cameras steady and in motion for film and television production. In the last six years, AGITO has been used everywhere from the Oscars and the Superbowl halftime show to Netflix documentaries, Chanel’s couture runway and even NASA’s SpaceX broadcasts. It’s also been trusted on scripted features and dramas, wildlife shoots and live concerts for artists like Adele, Coldplay and Metallica. It has also been used regularly to help shoot the wrap film for the annual Televisual Village Fete.
“We built AGITO to give filmmakers the freedom to move the camera in ways that simply weren’t possible before,” says Rob Drewett, CEO & co-founder of Motion Impossible. “To have that recognised with an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy is a huge honour – and it’s as much our users’ achievement as it is ours, for the way they’ve pushed AGITO to its creative limits.”
George Dochev and Peter Thompson were awarded for the development of cloud-native storage collaboration platform LucidLink. LucidLink is a cloud-native storage collaboration platform that lets teams work together instantly from anywhere and access any file on demand, collaborate in real time and keep every project secure from a single, always-up-to-date filespace protected by zero-knowledge encryption.
The Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award went to BBC Research & Development for tech breakthroughs since its inception in 1930 from FM radio to advancements in HDTV, UHDTV), Hybrid Log-Gamma and 5G networks.
“Behind every unforgettable moment on screen is a breakthrough in science, technology or engineering,” said Cris Abrego, chair of the Television Academy. “These groundbreaking innovations transform the way stories are created, shared and experienced. We celebrate these Emmy winners for forever changing how we experience the magnificent power of television.”
“This year’s Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards acknowledge the wide range of technologies used in our industry to aid the storytelling process,” said Barry Zegel, co-chair of the Engineering, Science & Technology Committee. “The award recipients represent a remarkable group of cutting-edge technologies that have advanced television production, safety and artistry in ways unfathomable when our industry began. In addition, we are recognizing the innovators responsible for remarkable production tools and setting standards that have revolutionized broadcast production and distribution.”
Added co-chair Wendy Aylsworth, “We also extend our hearty congratulations to Mark Schubin, who is receiving the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award, and to BBC Research & Development on receiving the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award. Both are incredibly deserving of these prestigious legacy awards.”
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