Video: See some Dyson-designed cardboard carts raced through a torture test track

Some of the most inventive minds working at Dyson are put to the test as part of Challenge Dyson, a yearly event/contest that brings out the most innovative solutions to varous fun challenges.

This year’s challenge Dyson was called the Card Kart Challenge. It involved engineers making a kart out of cardboard and racing against others on a challenging obstacle course. On the course, the karts encountered fire, water, wind and sand.

16 teams took part, and the event involved over 200 Dyson engineers globally, including those who designed and built the course from scratch. Over 800 Dyson people came out to view the event in Malmesbury.

create a remote-controlled kart made almost exclusively from cardboard. A challenge in itself - but the karts also needed to withstand fire, water, wind and sand.

The course, designed by Dyson engineers, was anything but easy. Some karts met with a fiery end or found themselves flattened on their travels. 

200 people from all over the business took to the challenge in a variety of ways. One team utilised already existing Dyson technology to enable a speedier assembly. The gear system on the Tangle Free Turbine tool was used to allow one design to traverse tight turns efficiently.