Scanadu and Zensor are joining forces to create Team Scanadu/Intelesens to compete for the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE.

The two companies are joining their expertise in their continued quest for the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a 3.5-year global competition sponsored by the Qualcomm Foundation. The goal of the contest is to create a mobile device much like the medical Tricorder of Star Trek fame, moving it from science fiction to science reality.

“By working together and playing on each other’s strengths, Team Scanadu/Intelesens expects to bring the reliability and accuracy of many areas of the medical device industry to the fast-paced world of the consumer,” said Jim McLaughlin, CTO of Intelesens and Director at NIBEC – University of Ulster.

Scanadu and zensor were both announced as Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE finalist teams back in August 2014. To win this prize, teams must successfully create a device capable of diagnosing and interpreting a set of 15 medical conditions and capturing five vital health metrics. As part of the final round, teams will compete in both diagnostic experience evaluations and consumer testing at the University of California, San Diego’s Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI), slated to begin in June 2015. The final judging and awards ceremony is scheduled to take place in early 2016.