Industry

Industrial Design & Health Technology

Client

Podoactiva S.L. with HP and University of Zaragoza

Smart Insoles. Industrial design for a 3D-printed wearable, built within a national R&D programme.

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Designing a smart, customised, 3D-printed insole inside a public R&D consortium.

Podoactiva, a Spanish leader in personalised insole manufacturing, set out to develop a new generation of smart, 3D-printed insoles in collaboration with HP — using HP’s Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) technology — and the University of Zaragoza. The project was framed within the RETOS-COLABORACIÓN programme of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and Bozeta joined as the team leading the industrial product design of the wearable: human-centred design, ergonomic detailing, preparation for 3D-printed manufacturing and integration of the digital sensors that turn the insole into a smart device. The goal: a clinical-grade product capable of being personalised, scaled and manufactured efficiently.

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From clinical research to a manufacturable smart wearable.

The result was an insole personalised to each patient through digital scanning, manufactured with HP MJF 3D-printing technology, and integrated with sensors that allow continuous monitoring of biomechanical data. The project demonstrated how industrial design, public R&D funding and additive manufacturing can converge into a commercially viable medical product. For Bozeta, Podoactiva remains a reference of how the studio works at the intersection of product engineering and digital innovation — and a first immersion into the world of publicly funded R&D consortiums that has continued to shape the studio’s trajectory.