Lab News

  • Dec 13, 2024. Congratulations! Our magnetic retractor received the silver award of “全国发明展”. Thanks dongming’s for participating the event and the project team members’ effort in the development. Well done!
  • Dec 12, 2024. CUHK: Sixteen CUHK projects funded by 2024/25 NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme. The highest number among Hong Kong institutions.
  • Nov 23, 2024. Kiki’s abstract got accepted by Global Spine Congress, congratulations!
  • Nov 12, 2024. Dr. Ren’s work has been accepted by SORO, congratulations!!
  • Oct 10, 2024 It is an incredible DAY. A few papers got accepted recently:
  • 1. Oran and Yehui’s paper got accepted by Control Engineering Practice;
  • 2. Yisen’s paper got accepted by Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics;
  • 3. Jixiu’s hamlyn paper got accepted by TMRB;
  • 4. Ben’s paper got accepted by Robio. Congratulations and your hard work well deserves!
  • Sep 14, 2024 Jixiu’s work got accepted by TMRB. Congratulations!
  • Sep 12, 2024 Welcome all new postgraduate students (Admitted in 2024)!
  • Sep 8, 2024 A stunning news. Celebrate our team and project! With Professor’s guidance, our project gets the support of Shanghai center and reported on the official website.
  • Aug 26, 2024 Zhang Heng’s work got accepted by TIE. Congratulations!
  • Aug 23, 2024 Our Msc student Sumedha’s work has received the best paper award of WRRC 2024. Congratulations!
  • Aug 10, 2024 Congratulations to Xiang qian and the Hopebotics team for the Most Favoured award!
  • Aug 7, 2024 Congratulations to all the graduates and welcome new students ! Wish you all have a wonderful future ahead.
  • Aug 5, 2024 Congratulations! Jixiu’s work has been accepted by TMRB!
  • June 24, 2024 Congratulations! Our team won the Third Prize of The 10th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition!
  • April 19, 2024 Congratulations! Our team won Gold Medal of the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (IEIG)!
  • April 19, 2024 Congratulations! Our team won Silver Medal of the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (IEIG)!
  • Congratulations! Our team won the Best Conference Paper Award of WRRC 2024.
  • Sept. 23, 2021 Congratulations! Our work on MAGS has been highlighted by the CUHK Innovation Day!
  • Sept. 8, 2021 Welcome! Luo Xiao joined us as a RA today!
  • Aug 6, 2021 Welcome! Xie Ke Joined us as a JRA today!
  • Aug 2, 2021 Welcome! Chito Joined us as a JRA today!
  • July 28, 2021 Welcome! Li Jian joined us as a PhD student today!
  • July 14, 2021 Congratulations! Truman has passed his PhD thesis defense today!
  • June 26, 2021 Congratulations! Weibing’s work has been accepted by TNNLS!
  • June 25, 2021 Congratulations! Yuqi has passed his PhD thesis defense today!
  • June 22, 2021 Congratulations! Wenci and Yehui have passed their MPhil thesis defense today!
  • June 21, 2021 Congratulations! Zhiqiang has passed his Phd thesis defense today!
  • May 31, 2021 Congratulations! Our project on robotic hand got funded by the TBF! 
  • May 24, 2021 Welcome! Keven joined us today as a mechanical engineer!
  • April 14, 2021 Congratulations! Yehui, Wenci and Flippy won the Champion & special award (postgraduate group) of the Prof. Charles K. Kao Student Creativity Award!
  • April 7, 2021 Welcome! Mr. Zhang Heng Joined us today!
  • April 4, 2021 Congratulations! Kelvin’s paper has been accepted by Stroke!
  • Mar. 30, 2021 Congratulations! Our Chinese Patent application on the flexible endoscope has been granted!
  • Mar. 23, 2021 Congratulations! Our MAGS project received the Bronze of 48TH International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva!
  • Mar. 15, 2021 Congratulations! Our PCT patent application on MAGS got accepted.
  • Mar. 9, 2021 Congratulations! Our US patent application on MAGS got accepted.
  • Mar. 6, 2021 Congratulations! Flippy’s work has been accepted by Soft Robotics!
  • Feb. 28, 2021 Congratulations! Six papers got accepted by ICRA 2021, including the works by Yehui, Truman, Xue, Dino.
  • Feb. 16, 2021 Congratulations! Truman’s work has been accepted by RA-L!
  • Feb. 16, 2021 Congratulations! Yehui’s work has been accepted by TMRB!
  • Feb. 16, 2021 Welcome! Dr. Cui Zhiwei joined us today!
  • Feb. 10, 2021 The collaborative work on oropharyngeal-swab sampling robot has been accepted by RAL!
  • Jan. 6, 2021 Congratulations! Our work on soft robotic hand has been funded by TSSSU!
  • Dec. 28, 2020 Congratulations! Our alumni Dr. Weibing Li was appointed as associate professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University!
  • Dec. 21, 2020 Welcome! Dr. Zhang Tao joined us today!
  • Dec. 4, 2020 Congratulations! Zhang Xue passed the QE today!
  • Dec. 3, 2020 Congratulations! Kelvin’s paper got accepted by Frontiers Bioengineering!
  • Dec. 1, 2020 Wenci Presented during IEEE BioRob 2020 online!
  • Nov. 19, 2020 Congratulations, Kelvin and his team won the silver of ‘第六屆「中國國際互聯網+」’!
  • Sept. 24, 2020 Congratulations! Kelvin and his team won the third prize of ‘第七届创青春 – 广东青年创新创业大赛’！
  • Aug 28, 2020 Congrtulations! Kelvin and his team entered the finalist of ‘第六屆「中國國際互聯網+」’!
  • Aug 18, 2020 Congratulations! Kelvin and his team entered the finalist of ‘第七届创青春- 广东青年创新创业大赛’！
  • Aug 17, 2020 Congratulations! Kelvin and his team entered the finalist of ‘创新南山2020创业之星’！
  • Aug 14, 2020 Congratulations! Church passed his Phd thesis defense today!
  • July 23, 2020 Congratulation! Minxin passed her MPhil thesis defense today!
  • July 7, 2020 Congratulations! Kelvin passed his PhD thesis defense today!
  • July 1, 2020 Congratulation! Church and Long’s work get accepted by IROS!
  • Jun 30, 2020 Congratulations! Our research on flexible surgical robot has been funded by RGC/GRF!
  • Jun 29, 2020 Truman passed the candidacy exam. Congratulations!
  • Jun 28, 2020 Congratulations! Max’s work has been accepted by IEEE Sensors journal.
  • Jun 27, 2020 Yisen Huang joined us today. Welcome!
  • Jun 23, 2020 Yitian Joined us today. Welcome!
  • Jun 1, 2020 Congratulations! Kelvin, Zhiqiang and Xiangqian received the second in the startup category of the 6th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition! iec.newgen.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Awardee-List-.pdf
  • May 8, 2020 Congratulations! Wenci Xin’s work has been accepted by IEEE BioRob 2020 to be held in New York!
  • Mar. 1, 2020 Congratulations! Weibing and Truman’s work has been accepted by IEEE/ASME TMech!
  • Feb. 22, 2020 Congratulations! Zheng was elevated to IEEE Senior Member!
  • Feb. 4, 2020 Congratulations! Kelvin’s work has been accepted by Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology!
  • Jan. 22, 2020 Congratulations! Three papers (Zhiqiang’s work, Max & Church’ work, Minxin & Weibing’s work) have been accepted by ICRA 2020!
  • Jan. 11, 2020 Congratulations! Minxin and Weibing’s work has been accepted by RA-L!
  • Jan. 10, 2020 Congratulations! Zhiqiang and Kelvin’s work has been accepted by RA-L!
  • Jan. 8, 2020 Congratulations! Weibing’s work has been accepted by TNNLS!
  • Jan. 6, 2020 Congratulations! Zhang Xue and Weibing’s paper has been accepted by RA-L!
  • Dec. 24, 2019 Congratulations! Max and Church’s paper has been accepted by RA-L!
  • Dec. 9, 2019 Zheng presented the work on soft hand rehab robot during ICBME 2019!Truman presented his work on the autonomous MAGS endoscope during ICBME 2019!
  • Dec. 8, 2019 Congratulations! Truman’s project received Gold Award of EMedIC Global 2019 in Singapore!
  • Dec. 4, 2019 Congratulations! Weibing’s paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics!
  • Nov. 7, 2019 Zheng presented the work on shared automony during IROS 2019, Macau.
  • Nov. 6, 2019 Truman presented his work during IROS 2019, Macau.
  • Oct. 28, 2019 Congratulations! Church and Max’s paper has been accepted by Surgical Endoscopy!
  • Oct. 13, 2019 Congratulations! MU Zonggao and Wang Peng’s paper has been accepted by IEEE Access!
  • Sept. 27, 2019 Congratulations! Our MAGS endoscope got shortlisted by Techno-College Innovation Award, EACTS 2019!
  • Sept. 19, 2019 Congratulations! Two abstracts get accepted by ICBME 2019!
  • Sept. 8, 2019 Congratulations! Fengran’s work has been accepted by RA-L!
  • Sept. 2, 2019 Congratulations! Fengran has successfully completed his PhD thesis defense!
  • Aug. 26, 2019 Congratulations! Flippy and Ben’s project has been shortlisted by EMedic 2019 in Singapore!Truman’s project has been shortlisted by EMedic 2019 in Singapore!
  • Aug. 10, 2019 Congratulations! Nicholas received the Johnson and Johnson Thoracic Surgery Student Scholarship with his paper on ‘The future of thoracoscopes’.
  • Aug. 7, 2019 Congratulations! Truman’s abstract has been accepted as oral for RCSEd/CSHK CSC 2019.
  • Aug. 5, 2019 Congratulations! Zhiqiang’s work has been accepted by IJRR!
  • Aug. 1, 2019 Welcome! Xin Wenci joined us as a Mphil student today. Mr. Yehui Li changed his role to a Mphil student today.
  • Jul. 29, 2019 Welcome! Michael Lei joined us as postdoc today.
  • Jul. 15, 2019 Welcome! Ben Joined us as a junior research assistant after his FYP in the group!
  • Jul. 10, 2019 Congratulations! Thomas successfully completed his Mphil Defense
  • Jul. 8, 2019 Welcome our intern student from Imperial College London, Jeffery Leung!
  • Jul. 2, 2019 Zhang Xue presented her work during the CUHK-Monash Joint Symposium!Zheng give an invited talk during the CUHK-Monash Joint Symposium.
  • Jun 28, 2019 Congratulations! Our project on MAGS received support from RGC/GRF.
  • Jun. 20, 2019 Congratulations! Truman’s work get accepted by IROS 2019!Ma Xin’s work get accepted by IROS 2019!
  • Jun. 17, 2019 Congratulations! Ma Xin, Wang Peng and Ye Minxin’s work on ‘Shared Autonomy of a Flexible Manipulator in Constrained Endoluminal Surgical Tasks’ has been accepted by RA-L.
  • Jun. 15, 2019 Congratulations! Kelvin and Zhiqiang’s project won the Silver of IEEE-EMB Hong Kong – Macau Joint Chapter Student Project Competition 2019.
  • Jun. 12, 2019 Congratulations! Truman and Weibing’s paper on ‘Visual Servo Control of a Novel Magnetic Actuated Endoscope forUniportal Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery’ has been accepted by RA-L.
  • May. 22, 2019 Church and max presented their work on robotic flexible endoscope in ICRA 2019!Zhiqiang presented his work on soft robotic control in ICRA 2019!
  • May. 20, 2019 Congratulations! Flippy and his teammates won the merit of PCKKSCA 2019!
  • April. 17, 2019 Dr. MU Zonggao joined us as a visiting scholar. Welcome!
  • April. 12, 2019 Our project on ‘3D-printed soft robotic hand for stroke rehabilitation and daily living assistance’ received the Silver Medal during the 47th Geneva International Invention Exhibition! Congratulations!

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  • April. 2, 2019 Congratulations! Our paper ‘Design of a 3D Printed Soft Robotic Hand for Stroke Rehabilitation and Daily Activities Assistance’ by Kelvin and Zhiqiang get accepted by ICORR to be held in Toronto, Canada, on June 24-28, 2019.
  • Mar. 8-9, 2019 Zheng was invited to Innovations in Thoracic Surgery 2019, Seoul and give two invited talks:- Innovations in Thoracoscopes- Magnetic Anchored and Guided Thoracoscope
  • Feb. 19, 2019 Prof. Pietro Valdastri visited us and give a seminar on ‘Life Saving Capsule Robots’.
  • Jan. 26, 2019 Congratulations!Our paper ‘Autonomous Flexible Endoscope for Minimally Invasive Surgery with Enhanced Safety’ by Ma Xin and Song Chengzhi get accepted by ICRA 2019!
  • Our paper ‘A Novel Iterative Learning Model Predictive Control Method for Soft Bending Actuators’ by Tang Zhiqiang and Heung Kelvin Holam get accepted by ICRA 2019!
  • Jan. 21, 2019 Dr. Guo Cheng joined us today! Welcome!
  • Jan. 9, 2019 Congratulations! Our paper ‘Autonomous Flexible Endoscope for Minimally Invasive Surgery with Enhanced Safety’ by Ma Xin and Song Chengzhi get accepted by RA-L.
  • Jan. 2, 2019 Zhang Xue Joined us as PhD student! Welcome!
  • Dec. 22, 2018 Group hiking to lion rock
  • Dec. 19 2018 Department Christmas Lunch
  • Dec. 2018 Group photo
  • Nov. 10, 2018 Congratulations! Our paper ‘Robotic Glove with Soft-Elastic Composite Actuators for Assisting Activities of Daily Living’ by Kelvin gets accepted by Soft Robotics.
  • Sept. 19, 2018 Congratulations! Our project on brain biopsy got funded by ITC!
  • Sept. 8, 2018 Group gathering for the new semester!
  • Aug. 29, 2018 Trivoramai presented her work during the IEEE BioRob conference in Netherlands!
  • Aug. 27, 2018 Mr. Li Yehui joined us today! Welcome!
  • Aug. 18, 2018 Congratulations! Kelvin won the Silver Award and the Technique Challenge Award of Emedic Global Competition! This is the only Hong Kong team standing out in this global competition!
  • Aug. 2, 2018 Mr. Wang Peng joined us today! Welcome!
  • July 27, 2018 Congratulations! Maxin’s work on flexible manipulator shape estimation has been accepted by IEEE Sensors!
  • July 17, 2018 Dr. Li Weibing joined us today! Welcome!
  • Jun 28, 2018 Zhang Xue had her first baby! Congratulations!
  • Jun 25, 2018 Minxin’s work on brain biopsy was presented in the hamlyn symposium, UK!
  • May 31, 2018 Congratulations! Trivoramai’s paper on soft robotic hand has been accepted by BioRob 2018!
  • May 30, 2018 Prof. Chiu presented our work on soft-tethered endoscope in European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES), London, UK.
  • May 29, 2018 Zheng won the Gold Medal of CUHK staff badminton competition (men’s double)!
  • May 24, 2018 Truman presented his work on magnetic anchored and guided endoscope in ICRA, Brisbane, Australia!
  • May 19, 2018 Zheng had his first baby! 
  • May 5, 2018 Congratulations! Truman’s paper has been accepted by JMRR!
  • May 4, 2018 Congratulations! Minxin’s paper on brain biopsy has been accepted by Hamlyn Symposium!
  • Apr. 19, 2018 Congratulations! Three teams entered the finalist of Emedic Global Competition!- Ivan Mok, Meiyi Ng and Church Song- Jennifer Chan and Flippy Pan- Kelvin Heung, Zhiqiang Tang, Chunman Ho and Lokhim Tung
  • Apr. 6, 2018 Our work on MAGS is featured as cover article in JTD.
  • Mar. 27, 2018 Congratulations! The abstract on soft-tethered endoscope has been accepted by EAES!
  • Mar. 24, 2018 Congratulations! Jennifer’s paper on her FYP project has been accepted by IEEE WCICA! 
  • Mar. 12, 2018 Congratulations! Truman was selected by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme to receive the prestigious award to support his PhD study!
  • Jan. 12, 2018 Congratulations! The paper ‘A novel magnetic anchored and steered camera robot for single port access surgery’ has been accepted by IEEE ICRA 2018!
  • Jan. 06, 2018 New Year Group Hiking and BBQ at Big Wave Bay, HK!
  • Jan. 03, 2018 The paper ‘Robotic Endoscopy’ has been accepted by Visceral Medicine!
  • Nov. 20, 2017 Truman won the third prize of national Challenge Cup! Congratulations!
  • Nov. 13, 2017 Dr. MA Xin joined us as postdoc today! Welcome!!
  • Sept. 23-28, 2017 The paper ”Design and Prototyping of a Soft Magnetic Anchored and Guidance Endoscope System was presented during the IEEE IROS 2017 conference in Vancouver, Canada.
  • Aug. 23-27, 2017 Two projects are demonstrated during the world robotics conference in Beijing.- Flexible Instruments for Single Port Access Surgery- Wireless Magnetically Steerable Endoscope
  • Aug. 14, 2017 Truman Cheng gives a presentation during the surgical lab research meeting. Well done！
  • Aug. 10, 2017 Miss Ye Minxin joined us as junior research assistant today! Welcome!
  • Aug. 3, 2017 The earthworm project is highlighted in the CUHK News and local news paper
  • Aug. 1, 2017 Flippy Joined us as PhD student today! Welcome! Wish him a successful PhD study in the group!
  • Jul. 20, 2017 Alan Yuk joined us as junior research assistant today, Welcome!
  • Jul. 17, 2017 Congratulations! Flippy and his team won the Gold award of JEC outstanding engineering project awards!
  • Jul. 12, 2017 Yuan Han’s paper has been accepted by RCIM. Congratulations!
  • Jul. 7, 2017 Congratulations! Church married his lovely wife today!! Best wishes to them!
  • Jun. 26, 2017 Truman presented his work during the Hamlyn Symposium at Imperial College London, UK.
  • Jun. 15, 2017 Congratulations! Truman’s paper has been accepted by IROS.
  • Jun. 06, 2017 Congratulations! The soft robotics hand is one of The Top Three Finalists from the Jumpstarter 2017 – Robotics, which is organised by Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. www.jumpstarter.hk/en/event/finalist/21 
  • Jun. 06, 2017 Prof. Russ Taylor visited our lab today!
  • Jun 02, 2017 Truman presented his work during the ICRA workshop ‘C4 Surgical Robots: Compliant, Continuum, Cognitive, and Collaborative’. His work received the finalist of best poster award! Congratulations!
  • May 29, 2017 Flippy presented his work during the ICRA workshop ‘Advanced Fabrication and Morphological Computation for Soft Robotics’! Nice work!
  • May 24, 2017 Yuan Han’s paper has been accepted by RAL. Congratulations!
  • May 23, 2017 Zheng LI won the Bronze Medal of CUHK Staff Badminton Competition!
  • May 23, 2017 Congratulations, Truman and Flippy both won the third prize of Challenge Cup in Hong Kong.
  • May 11, 2017Prize presentation of PCKKSCA. Once again, congratulations!
  • May. 3, 2017 Congratulations! Truman’s paper get accepted by Hamlyn Symposium 2017!
  • April. 24, 2017 Congratulations! Truman’s and Flippy’s abstracts both get accepted by ICRA!
  • April. 18, 2017 Geng Jian joined us today! Welcome!!
  • April. 12, 2017Congratulations! Flippy and his team won the Champion of Prof. Charlse K.Kao Student Creativity Awards! (Undergraduate Group)Congratulations! Truman won the First Runner-up of Prof. Charlse K. Kao Student Creativity Awards! (Postgraduate Individual) 
  • April. 11, 2017Congratulations! Flippy’s project won the Gold Prize of BME FYP Poster Award!!
  • April. 05, 2017Our da Vinci Research System has a new home now! Well done teammates!
  • April. 05, 2017 Dr. Zheng LI presented the talk ‘Medical Robots: from rigid to soft’ during the annual Symposium – Advances in Biomedical Engineering and Robotics in Hong Kong University.
  • Mar. 27, 2017 Zhangxue Joined us today! Welcome!!
  • Mar. 18, 2017 Dr. Zheng LI presented the talk on ‘Soft robotics for minimally invasive surgery’ during the i-MISC conference at HK Conventional & Exhibition Center.
  • Mar. 14, 2017 Congratulations! Two projects have entered the finalist of Prof. Charles K. Kao Student Creativity Awards!Flippy and his team entered the undergraduate group project finalist!Truman entered the postgraduate individual project finalist!Wish them the best luck in the final competition!
  • Mar. 13, 2017 Congratulations! Flippy and Trivoramai are selected as the finalist of FYP post award! Wish them the best luck in the final presentation!
  • Feb. 28, 2017 Congratulations! The project by Flippy, kelvin, zhiyao and alex has entered the finalist of JEC award! Wish them the best luck in the final competition!
  • Feb. 14, 2017 Congratulations! Dr. Wu Chuan has secured the faculty position in China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. 
  • Dec. 3, 2017 Congratulations! Dr. Yuan and Kelvin presented their papers in the IEEE Robio 2016 conference in Qingdao
  • Oct. 13, 2016 Congratulations! Kelvin’s project received the Gold Award of HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award for Students of Electronic Engineering or Related Engineering Fields 2016.
  • Oct. 11, 2016 Dr. Zheng Li presented the work “Design and Kinematic Modeling of a Concentric Wire-driven Mechanism Targeted for MIS” during the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Ingelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Daejeon, Korea.
  • Aug. 20, 2016 Congratulations! Kelvin, Flippy, Alex and Zhiyao’s project won two prizes (the ‘Most Innovative Award’ and ‘Bronze Award’) in the Emedic Global 2016 Competition! In this competition, a total of 40 international teams from five continents participated and eight teams were awarded.www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press_detail.php?1=1&1=1&id=2321&t
  • Aug. 20, 2016 Dr. Zheng Li give the invited talk “Surgical Robot: from rigid to flexible” on the Engineering Medical Innovation Summit: Medicine for the Future 2016.
  • Aug. 19, 2016 Sohan has finished his summer volunteer in success! 
  • Jul. 18, 2016 GWALANI, Sohan Arun joined us as a research intern/volunteer today. Welcome!
  • Jun 30, 2016 Dr. Kevin Cleary visited our Lab and give the talk on “Robotics, navigation, and image guidance for minimally invasive pediatric interventions”.
  • Jun 27, 2016 Poster “Design and Prototyping of a Concentric Wire-driven Manipulator” was presented during IEEE BioRob 2016, Singapore.
  • Jun 26, 2016 Dr. Zheng Li give the invited talk “Surgical Robot: from rigid to flexible” on the surgical robotics workshop in IEEE BioRob 2016, Singapore.
  • April 26, 2016 Truman, Gianna, Kelvin and Vincent successfully delivered their FYP oral presentation. Congratulations!
  • April 22, 2016 Dr. Zheng Li gives the talk “From Nature to Mechanisms to Robots” on the robotics symposium held by CUHK T-Stone Robotics Institute.
  • April. 20, 2016 Congratulations! Kelvin’s project received the second prize in the FYP Poster Award competition!!www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/u_final_year_projects_2015-2016.php
  • April. 5, 2016 Congratulations! Kelvin, Flippy, Alex and Zhiyao’s team project has entered the finalist of the EMedIC Global competition! Wish them good luck in the final competition!
  • Mar. 17, 2016 Congratulations! Vincent’s and Kelvin’s final year project (FYP) have been selected to compete for the 2016 FYP Poster Award!
  • Feb. 29, 2016 Dr. Yuan han has joined our Lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
  • Dec. 15, 2015 First gathering!! Cheers!
  • Dec. 8-10, 2015 Dr. Zheng Li, Dr. Hongmin Wang and Mr. Chengzhi Song attend the 30th international workshop on therapeutic endoscopy.
  • Nov. 20, 2015 Dr. Zheng Li presents his perspective on surgical robot during the 4th Asian Robotic Camp for Colorectal Surgeons.
  • Oct. 14, 2015 Dr. Wang Hongmin has joined the Lab as a postdoc. Welcome!!
  • Oct. 1, 2015 Two papers were presented at the IEEE IROS 2015 in Hamburg, Germany.
  • Aug. 20, 2015 Dr. Zheng Li was invited to present the wire-driven robot fish on the International Conference on Underwater Science, Technology and Education (ICUSTE 2015). 
  • Aug. 19, 2015 The paper “Electromagnetic Positioning for Tip Tracking and Shape Sensing of Flexible Robots” was selected as the cover article of IEEE Sensors, No. 8, Vol. 15, 2015.
  • Aug. 10, 2015 Welcome our new research assistant Mr. Song Chengzhi! 
  • Aug, 4, 2015 The paper “Design of A Novel Flexible Endoscope: Cardioscope” was presented at the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computer & Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2015) at Boston, Massachusetts
  • July, 17, 2015 The paper “A Novel Tele-operated Flexible Surgical Arm with Optimal Trajectory tracking Aiming for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery” was presented at the 7th IEEE International Conferences on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) RoCIS-RAM 2015
  • June, 30, 2015 Two papers are accepted by IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015).
  • June, 21, 2015 The paper “Design of A Novel Flexible Endoscope” is presented at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, Imperial College, London, UK.
  • May, 13, 2015 The paper “Optimal Teleoperation Control of A Constrained Tendon-driven Serpentine Manipulator” won the conference paper award and best paper finalist of the 28th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • April, 7, 2015 Our work on Flying Octopus was on the cover of the two ASME books: “Designs and Prototypes of Mobile Robots” and “Mobile Robots for Dynamic Environments”.